Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — The Pig Family in Court. [ARTICLE]

The Pig Family in Court.

Hon. C, B. Moore, ex-Attorney General of Arkansas, vouches for the truth of the following Incident, which took place while he was present in the court room at the Crawford County Circuit Court last November. A man named Driver was prosecuted for stealing hogs from a man named Pig. A wit news named Shoat testified that the accused re-marked, that is, changed the marks on the hogs, and then mortgaged them to a man named Ham. This combination of names induced a member of the bar to hand up to Justice Evans, who was presiding, a slip of paper on which he had written something like this: “This is a remarkaide case; here is a hog driver acccused of stealing pig's hogs. He ought to meat this allegation without difficulty, since pig says his bogs were simpiy mortgaged to a ham, and tills can only he proved by a shoat. This is not larceny; it is nothing but Bacon’s abridgement.”