Bill Moses was fined $300 on being convicted of retailing and $200 on an assault charge, and Lem McCoy was fined $200 on the assault charge in recorder’s court Tuesday morning. Judgement was suspended upon payment of the costs against the two men on a drunkenness charge. The case grew out of some trouble in River township when these men with some others came to a house where some young ladies were staying, and by their actions greatly frightened the ladies. Judge Alley first imposed road sentences, but stated that since the men had been convicted that he had learned that an offer had been made to McCoy that if he would give evidence against Moses in the liquor case that he would be dealt with lightly. The judge stated that he (next to lines obscured) considering one man as guilty as the other he would allow both to pay the fines, and put them under good behavior bonds.
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Lloyd Blackfox, a Cherokee Indian, was found guilty of shooting Seighley Long, an aged Indian, from ambush with a shot gun. The bill was changed to an assault with a deadly weapon, reducing it form the felony to a misdemeanor, and bringing it within the jurisdiction of the recorder’s court, and Blackfox was fined $20 and the costs.
Hubert Stanley was found guilty of abandonment of his wife and children, and was sentenced to serve a term of 18 months on the roads of Henderson county.
Sam Hunter was found not guilty of driving an automobile while intoxicated, but was fined $15 and the costs for driving on a highway under construction.
The following cases were continued until March 23:
Harve Howell, abandonment
Homer Green, forcible trespass
Jim Morgan, assault and resisting an officer
Albert Messer, reckless driving
Dewey Green, transporting
Elbert Frady, abandonment
Charlie Green, forcible trespass
Dolph Green, same charge
Chas. Green, larceny
Homer Green, larceny
Lee Arp, carrying concealed weapons
Lee Arp, assault with a deadly weapon.
From the front page of The Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Friday, March 13, 1925.
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