Show I A Concise Charge J Lippincotts Magazine agazine During the reconstruction period a colored gentleman was ele elected ted a justice of the peace In the back woods of oC South Carolina His first ease case happened to tobe tobe be one in which thE defendant asked for trial b by jury When the testimony was In and tile the arguments had been concluded the lawyers waited for the judge to proceed with his instructions to the jury The judge seemed some somewhat somewhat what embarrassed Finally Finall one or of the thela la lawyers Ers to him and told him that it was time for him to charge harge the jury Looking warily at the jury with witha a grim judicial air the judge said Gentlemen u uv de jury sence is a avery very el small case rn Ill jet jec charge harge yaU II a dollar an a half apiece I |