Jim Palmer, Frequently Acting Deputy Sheriff, Guilty of Violating Prohibition Law, Aug. 27, 1926

Acting Deputy Palmer Guilty of Liquor Charge. . . Jim Palmer Convicted of Violating Prohibition Law While Acting Deputy—No Sentence Passed

Jim Palmer, frequently acting deputy sheriff, was convicted of violating the prohibition laws by a jury in Macon County Superior Court Wednesday. At noon yesterday (Thursday), Judge W. F. Harding, presiding, had not imposed sentence.

Palmer’s conviction came as the sequel to the disappearance from a liquor car of a gallon of whiskey early in August. Palmer, as acting deputy sheriff, helped to capture the car. The gallon of liquor disappeared as the car was being taken to the jail, testimony offered at the trial showed.

The case has excited wide attention and apparently gave the jury considerable trouble, as it got the case on Tuesday afternoon and did not report a verdict until the following day.

Another case that created interest was that in which Joe Shaltz was charged with resisting an officer, the charge growing out of an encounter he had on the streets here Tuesday night with R. M. Coffey, policeman. He drew six months.

The only other road sentences that had been imposed up to Thursday noon were those on:

--Major Stanley, four months for possessing and transporting whiskey; and

--Joseph Young, who got 60 days for an assault on a woman.

Other cases disposed of follow:

--Fred Davis who pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon. He drew a fine of $50 and the cost, and the pistol was ordered destroyed.

--Fred Arnold, retailing; not guilty.

--Wayne Walker and Isaac Gibson, possessing and transporting liquor, fines each of $250 and the cost; the fines to be paid $10 a month; and to show good behavior each month.

--Greg Meadows, seduction, judgment suspended on payment of the costs, the defendant having married the woman.

--J. M. York, transporting and possessing liquor, $250 and the cost, the fine to be paid $10 per month. He must show good behavior each month.

--J. P. Stanley, possessing and transporting liquor. Pleaded guilty. A suspended sentence of eight months and a fine of $50 and the cost. He must show good behavior over a three-year period.

--Charie Kinsland, possessing and transporting whiskey; judgment suspended on payment of the cost.

--Thad Tallent, store breaking. Suspended judgment on payment of the cost and $30 to apply on the goods taken from G. C. Stamey. He must show good behavior over a two-year period.

--W. L. Talley, transporting and possessing liquor, a six months road sentence suspended on payment of the cost, contingent upon his showing good behavior for two years.

--Earl Crunkleton and Norman Reece pleaded guilty to transporting and possessing liquor. Crunkleton was fined $50 and half the cost. Reece was let off with payment of hal the cost. They must show good behavior for two years. In the same case, the charges against Joe Reece and C. E. Haney were non-suited at the solicitor’s request.

--Wiley Sellers and E. J. Buchanan, transporting and possessing, each $50 and the cost.

--Joe Hopper, Alice Hopper, and U. J. Holder, changing the mark of stock, not guilty.

--Dewey Duffey, retailing, not guilty. Carrying a concealed weapon, $50 and the cost.

--R. L. Williams, retailing, not guilty.

--Fred Hedden, drunkenness and carrying concealed weapon, $75 ad the cost.

--General Byrd and Homer Taylor, an affray. Taylor, $50 and the cost; Byrd, suspended on payment of the cost.

In the following cases, the defendants had pleaded guilty or been convicted, but sentence had not been passed: John Tyler, drunkenness and retailing; Robert Hopkins, retailing; Hubert Stanley, assault with a deadly weapon; Fred Stiwinters, assault with deadly weapon; Charlie Southards, distilling.

A large number of cases were continued.

From the front page of The Franklin Press, Friday, Aug. 27, 1926

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