Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-09 | Page 6 | Happy over His Light Sentence

SiAPPY.OVER HIS LIGHT SENTENCE ' In the criminal division of the;dbj; trlct court this morning John Wood. I a colored man, withdrew h'.s plea ot not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, and, by consent of the prosecution, prose-cution, was permitted to plead guilty to assault, whereupon the court sentenced sen-tenced him to serve a term of sixty days In the bounty Jail. Wood has Wn In Jail since last 1 July, his further Incarceration of two months making hlg term of imprisonment imprison-ment for the offense, of which ho has pleaded guilty, five months. He was dollphted to be permittod to enter hie plea of guilty of slmplo assault and left the court room with one of those great big smiles, of which the colored race Is capable. Wood undertook to thank the Judge, but he was waived out of the court room under a suppressed laugh from the spectators In the court room and the judge. In tho Information Wood was charged charg-ed with throwing a rock at G. H. Graham, Gra-ham, a railway brakeman, July 28, of Ibis year, striking him on the head and felling him to the ground. According Ac-cording to tho testimony given at tho preliminary hearing In the municipal court, Wood was trying to steal a ride out of the city on an Oregon Short L.'nc train rolng south, when the train crew rejected him. He became be-came exasperated and, gathering a rock from the ground, hurled It at Brakeman Graham, striking him on the head and inflicting an ugly wound.