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r$rknlt;CanseeJu d ge I ~I%*tto Be Lenient; 'betwarOilie Lane and Will BradleyBefore United StatesCourt PenalizedIOnly $1Holding: that no man should beFi\tpunishud twice for the same offense,Juiud^e Robert T. Erwin today finedand Will Bradley the sumof 11 each on the charge of violating *the national prohibition law, after it914iiIhad been proved that the men had already * been convicted In the statecotIsmulatuleamtencaiMerCcourts for the same acts which form the Mata of* the federal charge.Several defendants in the federal court are expected to get off with!vic these light fines, as others are said] ch‘to have also served sentences or been 1 fined by the estate on the same. , 'till irpwL |Walter Puckett was fined $10# and] jP* coots on the charge of violating the I prohibition law. Several prohibitionrcases are on the docket for todayameeiSEThe cases disposed of Monday were: Martin Weroeth plead guilty to a charge of violating the 'federal pro-®| hibition law'and was ■ fined #100. For-‘ | feiture of bond was entered against Jacques Baumhauer, charged with re-j 1 slating an officer, as was also in thes fic cases of Murray McKinley and Wal- j in ter E. Puckett, charged with violet- pai ing, the prohibition law. ,Cases against 1 by Arthur Kiser, Aaron McAlpine, ami 10e Wilmer M. LaFitte for the same vio-1 sal1tIttlation were continued, the defendants wit serving a term in the • state peniten- ■msciaWetnethisRltlary at present. Fred S. Irby? a mall carrier on-.a star route In Wilcox county, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing at different times checks, and warrants from the mall to the total amount of approximately $1,000 andwas given two years. Isaac Bradley, negro boy fifteen years old, was given five' years 'M. the ' national, trainingschool at Washington for stealingmoney from the Satsu ma postqfftcej £ sometime ago. ] (haFloyd S. Stone plead guilty to violating the prohibition* law and sentence was deferred until today. The case against Solomon B, Baggett, charged with violating the selection i service draft ■ act • by swearing to a ’ false affidavit about his son's age, nol pressed upon recommendation from judge Ervin, -FntheILXIinlndrtoffonpol
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