Mr. John Thomas is to be tried soon by a jury of his peers for keeping a scrub bull. Uncle Bragg Higdon, while perfectly willing to manage John’s campaign for sheriff, says he absolutely refuses to defend Joh on such a serious charge. It is Uncle Bragg’s opinion that John will even find great difficulty in procuring the services of a lawyer. Judge Bettah Stock will preside and in a previous case of this kind he sentenced the culprit to feed and milk scrub cows for 20 years which in the end amounted to a fine $12,004.67. This trial will take place at the creamery on June 12th. According to reports, John has been frantically interviewing his friends on Ellijay, and especially the good ladies of that section, with a view to persuading some of the to serve on the jury.
From the front page of The Franklin Press, Friday, June 4, 1926
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