The County Court Has a Short Term
“TEN DOLLARS AND COSTS, OR SIXTY DAYS,” SEEMS FAVORITE EXPRESSION OF JUDGE BRANNON.
The country court, presided over in its regular September term by County Judge L. H. Brannon, saw a rather unusual number of cases in which nollo prosequies were entered, but it likewise saw a rather unusual number of convictions, when the shortness of the term is considered.
Monroe Infinger, found guilty of drunkenness, was given a fine of $15.00 and the costs of the transaction, which amounted to $21.74 or fifteen days in jail in lieu thereof.
Perry Veasley and Annie Kelley, found guilty of assault and battery, and Veasley was given a fine of $25.00, and his share of the costs, which totalled $30.28, or sixty days, and Annie drew a $15 fine and her share of the costs, or forty-five days, if she preferred.
Buck Bishop, who entered a guilt plea to a charge of operating a car without a license, and drew a suspended judgment.
Henry Collingsworth, who was charged with the larceny of a hog, was found not guilty by the jury which heard the case.
Newton Edge, charged with petit larceny was likewise found not guilty of that charge.
H. E. Dannelley was found not guilty on a profanity charge.
Johnnie Cumbie entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of drunkenness, but a jury thought otherwise and he was fined $25.00, and the costs of the case, which amounted to $23.35, or four months in lieu of that sum.
Charley Garrett, Zelma Alred and Walter Pora were charged with assault and battery, and when found guilty drew varying sentences. The costs in the care, amounting to $27.77, were divided among the trio; Garrett drew $50 or ninety days; Alred $40, or sixty days, and Pora, $25, or fifty days.
Two persons, in separate cases, were each charged with operating a rolling store without a license. T. D. Daughtery, on that charge, was given a fine of $10.00, and costs amounting to $18.67, or sixty days, if he preferred such, and Kay Stevenson, on a similar charge was given the same fine, but the trimmings in his case were slightly more, amounting to $23.00, but the or else was a bit lighter, amounting to only thirty days.
George Emmett, on a drunkenness charge, was fined $1.00, and costs of $13.80, or the customary thirty days, and J. R. Frazier, on the same charge, likewise drew a fine of $1.00, and trimmings of $14.17, or the thirty days.
It cost Dallas King only $1.00 to park without lights, but the costs of the transaction were [comparatively] heavy–$17.17, or the same only thirty days, if he preferred that.
The charge against Raymond Cosson was the use of profanity, and to help break him of that habit Judge Brannon placed a fine of $5.00, and the prosecution charges amounted to $22.80, or the customary number of days in the Hotel de Prescott.
Theodore Frazier, who faced an assault and battery charge, was found guilty and his fine was fixed at $10.00 or thirty days.
Sid Flemming and Winfield Johnson, each entered a guilty plea to drunkenness charges, and Flemming got off with a fine of $10.00 and the costs of $21.42, and while the fine given Johnson was the same, the costs were a bit steeper, $26.24, but the customary thirty days was tacked on to each judgment.
Pearl Chase was charged with operating a car without a license, and the jury decided that he wasn’t guilty, and which ended the term, save for the case of Mrs. Dell Murphy, who was charged with violating the fishing laws, and after the jury decided that she was guilty, the judge thought that $1.00, and the cost of the case, which amounted to $28.42, would be about right, and so Judge Brannan closed his term with the customary “or thirty days.”