Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Whitt Lies. [ARTICLE]

Whitt Lies.

A man was being 1 tried in an Arkansas court for some trivial offense. He did not understand an excessive amount of the American language, and when the Judge said. “You are the defendant in this case, I believe,” he retorted, “You can't come outside of this court and tell me that,” « In Mississippi a case was being tried before a colored Justice who had just been elected to that important position. and who knew much more about hoeing cotton than he did about law. The lawyer for the defense made a long-winded speech and concluded by saying, “These are the facts in the case and you may draw what inference you please from them-" The defendant ■ was acquitted, and as the court adjourned the Justice called the lawyer to him, i and said: “I doesn't know ranch "boat dese legal papers an’ I wish you’d draw up dat inference fur me.* —Carl PretseTs Weekly.