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Show STATE LOSES CISARET CASE Jury Acquits Frank Rounds After Trial in City Court After deliberating for about 20 min-vV.es min-vV.es tho Jury in the case of the .st Lte against Prank Hounds, charged with having clgarois In his possession for sale roturned a verdict of not guilty in the city court vosterday afternoon before Judge I. R- Roberts. This Is the third verdict of nrr guilty that has been returned by Juries wl'.h-In wl'.h-In the past three weeks In cases of persona arrested In a raid conducted by the sheriffs office under the direction di-rection of County Attorney David Wilson Wil-son at Which time stocks of clgarets were confiscated. The firnt case tried before a Jury was that of Howard Goddurd, tho second that of Harry Korb and the third .ho Rounds case-i case-i The first two cases tried by the co irt I were those of the U nited Cigar Storea corporation and the Hemlnwny & i Moser corporation. The defendants in those cases emtered pleas of gulliy and were fined $150 each by City Judjro I ) R. Reberts. It was ur.l r-: r-: stood, however, that the clgarets that i had been confiscated In the raids on I those stores we-re o be returned to the defendants which was done. The next elgaret esse to be tried by a Jurv is that of d- Wit Uros.. Inc., which nlaco was raided about a month ago and about 20 packages of clgarets taken as evidence. Tho Jury chat heard the Rounds c ise wus composed of J. H. Miller, J K. Storey. P. E. Stone and H. EL Arm-I Arm-I strong. |