Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

Hairy Gifford was tried for assault and battery and found not guiltyKane Galbraith gave his own recognizance, for SIOO, to answer at the March term on the charge of intoxication. Geo. W. Goff and Joe Reynolds, his clerk, were tried, separately, on the charge of selling tobacco to minors. Very promptly found not guilty. Chas. Pefley, John Minicus and Frank Minicus were all tried by jury on charge of drunkenness, and all were acquitted. Orange Brewer and Al Catt, charged with the same offence as the above, were indiscreet enough to plead guilty, and they were fiaed $1 each. The grand jary, in its re-called session, to investigate the 1 alleged attempt to bribe a juror, in the Graves vs. Hoile case, found an indictment against John Graves, of Wheatfield, the plaintiff in the case. The charge of the court to the grand jary, previous Ho investigating the alleged bribery case was an interesting document, bat a little too long to be published in full and from its nature. not easily susceptible of condensation.