Mocksville, Sept. 4—When a petit jury came in and returned a verdict of not guilty in an illicit liquor count against J.C. Brewbaker and a colored man, Charlie Tomlin, Judge Stack told the 12 men that there would be no further use for them in his court and they could go home after proving their attendance. So far as is known, it was the first time a jury here had ever been sent away.
Judge Stack let it be known that he is thoroughly in sympathy with the enforcement of the liquor law and that he would stand for no pussy-footing on the part of juries. Not in words did he opening criticize the body of men who sat upon the case, but his action in dismissing them was even more positive than any word could have been and it spoke vlumnes to the hundreds who crowded the Davie County court house.
Judge Stack declared he thought the case an open and shut one. He said he thought the jury ought to have fund that such were the facts. With these words he ordered the jury to their homes, first telling them to go downstairs to the clerk’s office to get their pay, but he declared his court had no further use for them as jurors.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Sept. 5, 1925
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