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VOL. 70—NO. 8XTY DAYS GIVEN PROPHET BY AIKEN COURTssion to Conclude Thi» Week After Number Cates HaveBeen TriedJudge G. Duncan Bellinger in nerol sessions court here Wed-sday sentenced Nathan Prophet* egro charged with hit and run •iving in the death of Dr. W. G. odie of Wagener last month, to rve 60 days.Prophet was indicted. by the rand jury this week. It was tiarged he failed to stop after hisutomobile struck the Wagener hysician near Wagener the night f December 31.Other CatesMrs. Myrtle Kneece, white, of lorse Creek valley, entered a plea i guilty of violation of the liquor aw, and was sentenced to 30 days n jail and a fine of $100.00. Up-►n payment of $25.00, however*he balance was suspended.Dave Woodward entered a plea f guilty of assault and battery )f a high and aggravated nature* and received a term of six months and Walter McKie also plead guU-ty to violation of the liquor law and was sentenced to thirty dayson the County gang.Yesterday morning the jury acquitted Otis Stallings, young white man of the Jackson section* on a charge of assault with intent to ravish. The alleged offense was committed on November 27th last, and Stallings has been in the County jail since that time.As we go to press, the case of the State vs. Joe Callahan, Aiken l n^rro, is being tried, Callahan bIRtg charged with malicious mischief, in that he is said to have shot a bird dog of Charles Ramey, also colored and the neighbor of I Callahan in June of last year.I State’s witnesses contend that ! Callahan shot the dog while it i was in Ramey’s hack yard, and while Ramey was away in Bam-Iberg on a painting job.The Court will continue throughI today, and will either adjourn I sine die tonight or tomorrow. So-j licitor Carter has announced that ! due to the large number ofi guilty pleas the docket wiH be ' practically cleared this week, and the usual second week of the criminal terra will not be held.! Judge Bellinger and Solicitor Carter are expected to return to 1 their homes sometime tomorrow.i Sheriff J. P. Howard announced.'yesterday after a conference withI Solicitor B. D. Carter and Judge k Bellinger that the term of court ! would conclude this week. The ^sheriff said jurors drawn for next i week need not reportii j In the final presentment of the ■ Aiken grand jury, filed with s1 Judge Bellinger, it was recommended the Aiken county delega-* tion change the fiscal year soi that ail appropriations be made . from July 1 each year rather than from Jan. t as is the pre-e sent system.1 The grand jury will assemble- again in May. H. S. Roundtreeof North Augusta is foreman.
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Aiken Standard and Review
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Fri, Jan 28, 1938
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