Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — A Motion to "Squash.” [ARTICLE]

A Motion to "Squash.”

Ha par's Magzine for November. Colonel M , comonwealth’s attorney for county, had unbounded influence over the presiding justice of the county court under the old system. B———,a young lawyer, had been retained to defend a prisoner, and discovering what he conceived to be a fatal defect in the indictment, submitted a motion to quash. Be was proceeding to sustain his point as ho cauld when the presiding justice, a fat old fellow, settled himself in his chair and fell asleep. The argument proceeded, and at its close “the ’Squire" roused up, and rubbing fils eyes, said, “Squash’er." Colonel M was on his feet in a moment, and inquired, with much asperity, “Do I understand this court as sustaining the motion to quash my indictment?” “Oh! No, Kurnil,” said the ’Squire. “I squashes the motion to squash.”