The trial of Jesse Wyatt, charged with the killing of Stephen S. Holt of this city on the second of last June, has again been postponed. This time the Raleigh Fair intervenes and the case will not come up until the week of November 2, according to an agreement reached at a conference held Thursday by Judge Garland E. Midyette and the attorneys on both sides. Solicitor Evans and J. Wilbur Bunn and jones and Horton, representing the defense, did not think that fair week would be a suitable time for a trial of the magnitude of the Wyatt case. Judge Midyette had already arranged for the converting of the two weeks’ civil term beginning October 6 into a mixed term. It was decided to use the first week of the trial for civil cases and the second week for the Wyatt and other criminal cases.
The Wake County bar voted 24 to 5 to dispense with the court entirely during fair week, but Judge Midyette held that such an action would hinder too much the business of the courts and the term will be held with the exception of Thursday, the biggest day of the fair. It was agreed at the conference held Thursday that no further continuance will be sought by the defense on any technical grounds. The case, it will be recalled, was continued in June and again in July on technical grounds. The continuance next week will be the fourth, the case having been unavoidably continued in September because of the illness and death of Armstead Jones of the defense counsel.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, 1925
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