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CITY CHA1NGANG.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION IS
RENDERED BY JUDGE SPEER
A Writ of Habeas Corpus Grant¬
ed in the Jamison Case at
Macon, and a Decision That
Sentences Without Jury Trials
Are Unconstitutional.
United States District Judge
Emory Speer of the Western di¬
vision of the Southern district of
Georgia, has rendered an opin¬
ion of far-reaching importance,
involving tne authority of Muni¬
cipal Courts all over the country
to sentence violators of municipal
ordinances to local chaingangs.
The case came beforo Judge
Speer on a writ„of habeas corpus
applied for by Henry Jamison, a
negro, for release from the cus¬
tody of E. A. Wimbish, superin¬
tendent of Bibb county, Georgia
chaingang. Judge Speer in a
lengthy opinion decided that the
superintendent was without au¬
thority to hold the prisoner, and
directed his immediate release.
In passing on the case Judge
Speer called attention to the fact
that the commitment from the
Recorder’s court was a sentence
and nothing more, and that there
was no finding of guilt or in*
nocence by the Recorder. The
question involved, said
Speer, “is whether the Recorder
of Macon can, without any sort
of criminal pleading, and without
the intervention of a jury,
viot a citizen for violation of a
municipal ordinance and sentence
him to seven months hardlabor or.
the public chaingang, the pun¬
ishment to be suffered in a branch
of the penitentiary.”
Continuing he said:
No Authority in Law
‘‘Can it be maintained in the
light of the Constitution that one
man, under any form of proce¬
dure devised, or to be devised,
by local legislation, can consign
men, women and children to a
chaingang for such trivial offences
as are within the jurisdiction of a
police magistrate,
Judge Speer severely scored
the chaingang methods, and said:
“Indeed, it may be with entire
accuracy declared that the vol¬
uminous and exhaustive prepara¬
tion of the City Attorney and the
subsequent examination by the
court has evoked so shred of au¬
thority, either American or Eng¬
lish, where a sentence by a police
magistrate to a publicjchaingang,
with the ignominious accessories
of fetters, the stripes, lash and of
the degradation of convict life
has been sustained or even palli¬
ated. Under the American sys¬
tem the chaingang has no place
in the jurisdiction and procedure
of Police Courts where trial by
jury is not a right of the ac¬
cused,”
Recorder's Sentence Void
He. then declared that the sen¬
tenced! the Recorder was void, for
want of due process of law and
because one man cannot judge
infamy. ‘‘Like thousands of the
oppressed and down trodden,”
he said, “through all the centu¬
ries since that glorious day in
when 1 ‘ the s i tor v, Great 01 ^ Charter aman l [ ' made )er L v
forever imperishable the princi¬
ple that ‘no freeman may be ta¬
ken or iuiprisbned, ;“T‘—- but by the
' aw ^ Judgment of his peers
by th3 law of the land,’ he ap
l ,lies for ** S^at writ of right
thb writ of habeas corpus, and
he humbly seeks the portals of
the court whose Judges are
sworn to know no difference be¬
tween the rich and the poor,
where justice ever bends the lis¬
tening ear to catch the plaint of
the humble and the lowly.” “If,
he said further, “the prayer of
the petitioner must be denied,
then the statute authorizing the
United States Courts and the
Judges thereof to issue the writ
of habeas corpus to protect the
rights of t le citizens guaranteed
by the national Constitution have
at last been successfully nullified.
Law to be Equally Enforced
Judge Speer declared that the
argument had been advanced by
a road commissioner that while a
sentence to the chaingang would
forever ruin a white man pre¬
viously respectable, it bad no
such effect on a respectable negro.
He held that such considerations
do not appeal to a court charged
with the equal enforcement of
the law, and he did not believe
they met the approbation of the
best people of the Southern
States, nor were they
to the welfaie of the South or
hopeful for its future.
Judge Speer concludes with
an argument made by him twen¬
ty years ago, and which he reaf¬
firms, In this he said that
“though the color line expert
may so declare, this is no col¬
or line case. It is a negro to¬
day. It will be a white man,
aye a white child and a white
woman tomorrow. In this court
the law is equal and for all.”
Application for New District.
GEORGIA—Mitchell County.
The petition of a number of citizens
of the 625 malitia district have ‘asked
that a new militia district be laid out of
said district commencing at the Colquitt
county line between lots of laud Nos.
250 and 251 in the 9th district and run¬
ning North to the Dougherty county
liue (the same being bounded on the
east by the lines of Colquitt and Worth
counties) then west along the Dougher¬
ty county line to lpt No. 8 in said dis¬
trict, thence south to No. 258 and thence
east to commencing joint between lots
of land Nos. 250 and 251, embracing and
including in the new militia district 84
lots of land. The commissioners haring
been duly appointed as required by law
who liave submitted a report recoiu
mtndinj the establishment of the same
sw a now militia district. Said petition
having boon approved by me, and pro¬
ceedings entered on the minutes of the
Ordinary's court and the; game having
been transmitted to die Governor of the
State as the law directs and having been
acted upon bv the governor awBsaid dis¬
trict having been numbered 1611 G. M.
It is ordered that this notice of said new
district be published in the Camilla En¬
terprise for 30’days as required by law.
This July 1st, 1904
J. G. WOOD, Ordinary.
Application for Dismission.
GEORGIA—Mitchell County.
W. N. Segler, Guardian of Daniel O.
Bustle, Ida Beasley formerly Ida Bustle
and Allie Minton, formerly Allie Bustle,
has applied to me for discharge from his
guardianship of said wards. This is
therefore'to'notify all persons concerned
to file their objections if any they have
j on or before the first discharged Monday in August
next, else he will be from his
1 guardianship as applied for.
J. G. WOOD, Ord. M. C.
| Application for Dismission.
GEORGIA—Mitchell County.
W. B. Lewis, guardian of E. D. Lew¬
is, has applied to me for a discharge
from his guardianship of E. D. Lewis.
This is therefore to notify all persons
concerned to file their objections if any
they have on or before the first Monday
in August next, else said W. B. Lewis
will be discharged from liis guardianship
as applied for. Witness my hand and
official signature, this the 1st day of Ju¬
ly, 1904. J. G. WOOD,
Ordinary.
*a©£K i
Hanging in Camilla.
I am still hanging around the door selling groceries and will appre¬
ciate a share of your patronage. Carry a complete line of
Sour and Sweet Pickles,
also a nice line of Olives.
Bring your laundry to me and I will have it fixed up in first-class style.
Crawford C. Baggs, SlSlUT
CITATION*
GEORGIA—Mitchell County.
Maria Jones having made application
for twelve month’s support out of the
estate of Jacob Jones, and appraisers
duly appointed to set apart the same,.
having filed their return. All persons
concerned are hereby required to show
cause before the court of Ordinary of
said county on the first Monday in Au¬
gust 1904, why said application should,
not be granted.
This 1st day of July 1904.
J. G. WOOD, Ordinary.
Notice of Local Legislation.
GEORGIA—Mitchell County.
Notice is hereby given of an intention
to apply at the present session of the
General Assembly of the State of Geor¬
gia (now in session) for the passage of a
local or special bill, the title of which is
as follows: “An Act to incorporate the
town of Mapleton, in the county of Mitch¬
ell, State of Georgia, to define the cor¬
porate limits thereof; to provide a mu¬
nicipal government for said town, to
confer certain powers and privileges on
the same and for other purposes.
This 21st day of June, 1904.
Notice.
Tins is to notify all persons concerned
that there will be let to the lowest bid¬
der on the second Tuesday in July next,
the contract for building a Court House
in 1003 District G. M. Said Chan
House to be built as per specification
now on file in my office. Sealed bids
axe required for the same, the Commis¬
sioners reserving the right to reject any
and all bids so desired.
J. G. Wood, Ord., andC. B. C. R. R.