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Show gu.lt v, he proposed to make... n. -ample of them as would tend to detu o her- from committing like ofienees. He then fined defendant $9... and co,U, amounting in all to $138.70, which defendant de-fendant paid. . V15 p. m.-The Court has justs sen tenced Eduardo Alvarez to two years imprisonment in the State pemtuiij. Prisoner's counsel, Atty. Marioneaux gave notice of appeal. DISTRICT COURT. The regular January term of the District court for Washington county commenced on Tuesday with Judge K. V. Higgius on the bench, and court stenographer W. L. Cook in attendance. Eduardo Alvarez, the Spaniard who has been languishing in jail about two months awaiting trial, was brought into in-to court for arraignment. Alvarez looked very much worse for his con-tlnement con-tlnement as he came hobbling into court hanging on the arm of the sheriff and using a walking stick, he also had his head wrapped in a large tow-ell, and altogether looked more like a hospital subject than a criminal. He entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of grand larceny, and his trial was set Thursday. THAT WINE SELLING CASE. The case of the city of St. George against Joseph Fuller was called for trial. Fuller it will be remembered was tried before Justice Daggett some time ago for selling liquor without license, was convicted and appealed to the District court. The case is one that has aroused much interest here. The evidence on the part of the prosecution pros-ecution is substantially that On Nov. 24th last two strangers traveling thro the county were employed by Mayor Brown to apply to the defendant, who had for some time been suspected of selling liquor, and induce him to sell them a bottle of wine, furnishing a dollar dol-lar with which to make the purchase. About dusk of the same day they proceed ed to defendant's house in the city and requested him to sell them some wine; defendant demurred somewhat, saying they were strangers and that he feared they were spotters sent by the city to trap him, but told them he could sell five gallons. They protested that this was more than they desired, when the defendant said he would buy back what they did not want. The strangers did not agree to this, arid defendant finally asked them how they would like to find a bottle? The strangers concurring in this very choice and reasonable proposal defendant went to his wine cellar, got a bottle of Wine, placed it in the grass near by, changed a dollar that they handed him retaining a quarter, and then directed the men where the bottle could be found. They secured the bottle bot-tle and went out on to the street to Mayor Brown, who had been watching the proceedings. Mayor Brown and Judge Daggett testified that after the trial in the Justice's court, defendant admitted to each of them the selling of the wine-. The evidence on the part of the defendant de-fendant tended to prove that he refused tn cill thf, at.i'n n crprq nnv vinA in Ipss quantity than five gallons; that some time before the arrival of the strangers at his house a young man boarding with him had procured a bottl-i of friho from defendant's cellar, fi'o'm a cask ijrUiiig-ing ijrUiiig-ing to a neighbor; that this yquilg than being called upon by defendant to do some chores had deposited the bottle in the grass near the cellar, and that defendant de-fendant saw it there; that when the strangers refused to take five gallons, and pleaded that they wei'e cold and tired and must have some wine, he told them where this bottle of wine was, and insisted that if they took it it was at their peril, that it was not his property; that they did take take it and left 2oc. upon the ground nearby, where it was afterwards found by the young man, who kept it: The juryj after being out two hours, returned a Verdict of guilty, and the time for sentence was set for Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. THE COW AND CALF CASE; This much-tried case between Wm, Atkin vs. J. S. Stucki occupied the attention at-tention of the court for the larger part of two days, and the jury after being out several hours deliberating on it, at last arrived at the long-coveted verdict, which was in favor of defendant. In the matter of the Estate of Moses M. Sanders, it was ordered that the final account be approved and settled, and that distribution be made as prayed for. The same orders were made in the matter of the estate of William Lang, and in the matter of the estate of James Jackson. In the matter of the estate and guardianship guard-ianship of Alonzo Jackson et al; ordered that, Martha Jackson be appointed guardian of the minor heirs upon filing a bond in the sum of $2000. The case of the State vs. Eduardo Alvarez was called for trial Thursday forenoon, and not until Friday ihornin at 10 o'clock was the jury completed'! The case has been so much before the public that it becomes very difficult to find enough jurors to try the case that had not already made up their mind in the case. The jury in the case of the State vs. Eduardo Alvarez returned into court a verdict of guilty, arid time for sentence sen-tence was fixed for o p. m. todav. At 2 o'clock this afternoon' Joseph Puller wan brought up for sentence. Judge Higgins in sentencing the defendant de-fendant said that the traffic ill Dixie wine was becoming quite a curse to this section of country, and was leading many young men as tvell as men with families astray; that under existing !a,V8 il s,med very dilllcult to suppYess it. Whenever these cas- were brought befor,, him: and th,-. ,,..u,.s )(rn |