Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — SAME VERDICT AT SAME TIME. [ARTICLE]

SAME VERDICT AT SAME TIME.

Remarkable Coincidence in Assault and Battery (’uses Tried at ;■ Bloomfield. Bloomfield. Ind., Dec. 5. —A remarkable coincidence was noted in the Circuit Court here yesterday. A regular jury had been impaneled in the case of . the State against Perry White, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill Mitchell Shanklln. The men, who were neighbors with a grudge, met a few -weeks ago in the public highway, and proceeded to settle their differences with knives and rocks. As soon as the case had been given to the jury and. it had retired to the Jury-room, a special jury was impaneled to try a similar ease, the defendant being Sherman Cox, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill fra Burge. In a few hours the testimofty was In and Jury No. 2 was instructed and retired to decide on a verdict. After a few hours the two juries entered the courtroom simulantenofisly, and, to complete the coincidence, each jury returned a verdict of guilty and a fine of sls.