Judge Thomas H. Calvert is presiding at the spring term of Martin County Superior Court, which was convened here yesterday morning.
He charged the jury on the need for law enforcement and the duty of juries, both grand and petit.
The following constituted the grand jury: W.S. White, H.S. Johnson, M.D. Wilson, Noah P. Roberson, J.Q. Andrews, W.S. Bunting, J.B. Bullock, McL. James, J.H. Roberson Jr., Arthur Roberson, H.S. Everett, Lester Peel, W.G. Peel, Mayo Peel, W.W. Taylor, L.R. Everett, C.G. Gurkin, Jos. E. Griffin.
Bills of incitement were turned into court as follows:
No. 3. State vs. Paul Ballard, cruelty to animals.
No. 4. State vs. Roy Ford, housebreaking and larceny.
No. 5. Against Weldon Ford, housebreaking and larceny.
No. 6. Against Robert L. Hargrove, housebreaking and larceny.
No. 7. Against Nathan Bond, housebreaking and larceny.
No. 8. Against Paul Ballard, larceny.
The grand jury’s report was read and the gentlemen of the jury discharged at 11:30 Tuesday morning. The grand jury sharply criticized the condition of the buildings at the county home as being entirely unfit for the proper care of the inmates. They also found the jail building in the same bad and unsafe condition. They reported the management and handling of the inmates of the county home to be satisfactory; also the jail.
The jury found Robert Lee Hargrove and Roy Ford guilty of breaking into the house of P.T. Everett in December and stealing about $1,000 in cash, about a third of which was gold. Weldon Ford was found guilty of receiving a part of the money from them. Nathaniel Bond, who was also charged with receiving a portion of the money, was found not guilty. The judge has not yet pronounced sentence on those found guilty.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Tuesday, March 16, 1926
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