Show case in judge petersons court attracts attention the calse cause of the state va vs C L S vinney frank james me donald er ck ek greenhalch Green halh hyrum johnson and thomas park came to a close in judae peterson s court last saturday evening the tue defendants were ong nally charged with rioting it being alleged that they tried to drive W anderson outside the c ty I 1 mits but the court reduce the of bense and alloyed allowed them to entel a I 1 plea lea of gu ity to disturbing the peace A fine of 10 hn as hessed against ea a of th six de fend fenc ants lants this case occupied th on 0 the court dunn darin th greater part vf saturday and attracted much at the cise went to trial on the complaint cheh h ch charged the de tend fend ants with rioting ri otin which is a felony under the rutih statutes af ter the county attorney had present ed his case calling a number of hit wit nesses including the complainant C E berry who represented be de fend ants made a botio mo t to i that it the co court urt reduce the ching eh ira fi that of disturbing the peace c P e attorn y berry claim claimed d that the evidence toiled to sho v that t the de tend tenc ants lants were ivere gu ity a rioting as charged harle d I 1 this Is moti ti i was resisted sited re by C county u nty attorney met who made in ad e the ateman ny that the court had no leal II 1 righetto right tto to allo 11 v the six men en to pi pl ad a gurity 6 I 1 ty ta any crime other than I 1 hat bat allege leel i la in th corn com plaint that I 1 be he mast st either bold hold th defendants c 0 t tha district court on the compean t which w hai hat b en filed against the i 0 of order a cism asal ahe court h awe keyei er chimed that the evidence did di n not t show that the de fend ants we me e guilty oe of noting biotin g he ile bel bet eved tha that jin a goffena hai hat been co committed in itte a aid was willing to accept al P plea a of g guilty I 1 ty to a misdemeanor judge id i d e e ers I 1 court un t til it 7 30 0 on saturday evening at wh which ic ti time e a 8 sentence was passed the time came for passing sentence the court house was packed to the dobia and many ere unable to get within h arina distance the county attorn y ant an the at torney for the defens orated at considerable coast d e length as soon as the court t O 0 op iad n d al aid d then duj ju loe e peter son beeme seemed t to 0 ge get t t th 11 sp nt rit an ani I 1 he beat them both ai at th ir 0 va game in passing sentence the court warn arn ed the defendants all any others agan agail st committing commit tui mitat ar crimes and sad sa d that in th event other cases of thia this are brocht bt N fore h I 1 the defemia its will be div en the I 1 in t gus st who was also chang ed with di disturbing th deac enter ed a plea 0 gu ity lie ile claimed that he was daunis ail that if h had made any talk about hanging ander son he did not re it judge peterson fined him a |