MIAMI TIMES. MIAMI.FLORIDASATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1950

Good Morning JudgeNews and Views from Miami’s Municipal Negro Court

JUDGE L. E. THOMAS, PRESIDNIGBy ELLIOTT J. PIEZE, Tiroes Staff Writer

Because of conditions over whichI had no control, the weekly fea-

ture “Good Morning Judge” did notappear in last week’s issue of theTimes. I wish to apologize to the

many readers who looked for it only

to be disappointed. But I promise

that it will not happen again.In order to keep the records in

their proper sequence, I shall first

give you the report on cases heardand disposed of by Judge L. E.

Thomas in Municipal Court last

week, which should have appeared

in our last issue. Then I shall followwith the report of cases tried thisweek. > »>

For the first time in the past four

weeks no new record was establish-ed in the number of oases in Judge

h. E. Thomas’ Municipal court last

Monday morning when the totalnumber on the official docket of

the day was a mere 58. But the

courtroom was filled to capacity

with both spectators and defen-dents on trial. The day, as a whole,

may be well classified as an aver-

age one in the history of the newcourt.

Highlights of the day’s trials wasthe case of Lawrence Carroll, who

was charged with petty larcency in

the theft of $32.00 from a grocery

store at the corner of NW 2nd ct.and 19th st.

The defendant declared that he

was completely innocent throughoutthe course of the trial, but evi-dence produced by the complainant

and the arresting officer who foundthe money on the accused man, es-

tablished proof to the contrary.

Before rendering a decision, Judge

Thomas held the case in waiting inorder to make up his mind fully asto the guilt or innocence of the ac-cused man. When the case was call-ed second time, the Judge heardfurther testimony and then sen-tenced the defendant to 2 days injail, $65 and cost or an additional30 days in jail.

Other cases heard and disposedof were as follows:

Donand W. Major, John Chap-man, Osie Crawford, Jeratha Truth,Herbert Miller, Curtis Anfield, Cur-tis Morgan, T. C. Miller, Ike Moore,Hilton Hannah, and Esther Warewere each charged with being drunkor drunk and disorderly conduct.

Major, Chapman and Crawfordwere dismissed. The others receiv-ed fines and sentences ranging from$5 and coat or 6 days to sls andcost or 10 days.

Linder Mae McClain, Eva Wil-liams, Bennett Carey and CharlesBritt were each charged with dis-orderly conduct. McClain was fined$lO and cost or 4 days; Williamswas fined sls and cost or 10 daysand Carey was dismissed.

Melvin Payne and Arthur Georgewere each charged with drivingwhile under the influence of intox-icating liquor. Payne was fined SSOand cost or 24 days and George wasdismissed.

Henry Williams and Martin Din-kins were each charged with va-grancy. Each was sentenced to 30days in jail.

T. C. Miller, James M. McClinton,and Charles Britt, were each charg-ed with carrying concealed weap-ons. Miller was dismissed, McClin-ton was sentenced to 10 days injail, $65 and cost or an additional60 days in jail, and Britt was fined$26 and cost or 14 days. Miller wasalso charged with resisting arrestand fined sls' and cost or 10 days.

Willard Sands, Eddie Brantley,Jack Hardy, Lexie Nelons, WillieLove, Jimmie Randall and ErnestIngraham were each charged withassault and battery. Sands wascharged with assault and battery

on Corine Montgomery, Brantley onhis wife, Millie Brantley, Randallon his wife, Perry Randall; ErnestIngraham on Clara Rolle, Hardy onhis wife, Valdora Hardy, Nelons onCatherine Jenkins, Love on LouisJohnson, and Johnny Ingraham onLillie Mae Burnside.

Sands was fined sls and cost or10 days, Brantley was dismissed,Ernet Ingraham was sentenced to10 day in jail, S4O and cost or anadditional 20 days in jail. Randallwas fined sl6 and cost or 10 days,Hardy was sentenced to 30 days injail, $65 and cost or an additional30 days in jail; Love was fined $lOand cost or 4 days, Nellon was fined

$lO and cost or 8 days, and Johnny

Ingraham was fined $5 and cost or

6 days.

Paul Woodrow Rogers, NathanielHawkins, Edward McNeal and Al-exander Taylor, were each charged

with gambling. Rogers and Haw-kins were fined $lO and cost or 4days each; McNeal’s and Alexan-der’s cases were continued untilSaturday.

Lee McCullough—charged withunlawful possession of moonshineliquor case dismissed.

Joseph Brown, Harry CrawfordDaniel Patterson and James Mc-Nair were each charged with sleep-

ing on private property. Brown andCrawford were fined $lO and costor 8 days each. Patterson and Mc-Nair were dismissed.

Leonard Smith charged withdriving without driver’s license anddriving without inspection cjertif-cate fined $lO and cost or 4 dayson first charge ss and cost or 2days on second.

Albert Twin charged with

double parking and with failure topay traffic citation (defendant toreup citation). Sentenced to 2 daysin jail and $25 and cost.

Hilton Hannah charged withreckless display of fire arms, sen-tenced to 2 days in jail, $65 andcost or an additional 30 days injail.

Monday morning of this weekfound the docket crowded with atotal of 72 cases for trial. An over-capacity crowd in the courtroombefore bore witness to the fact thatmany of the cases held wide inter-est and affected many people.

Highlight of Monday’s trials wasthe sensational case of Pearl T.Jenkins of 1606 NW Ist court, whowas charged with assault with a

: gun on Mary Williams of the same¦Address.

Jenkins was defended by Atty.darter, White, and there were fivewitnesses in the case —two forthe defendant and three for thecomplainant.

According to testimony revealedat the hearing, Jenkins and, Wil-liams had been on unfriendly termssince Wiliams was removed fromthe job of manager of the roominghouse where they lived, and Jen-kins was put in her place, severalweeks ago. It was further broughtout that dispute arose betweenthem quite frequently. On Saturday

afternoon another argument de-veloped when Williams was askedto move by the owner, for failure

to pay her rent. Williams chargedthat Jenkins slapped her severelyand then drew a gun on herthreatening to kill her.

Jenkins, of course, denied thecharges, saying she never had agun and did not have *one at thattime. Upon cross questioning of theprosecution witnesses, the attorn-ey almost succeeded in breakingdown the charge that Jenkins hada gun and but for the exact cor-roboration by the flnql witness ofthe charges made by the earlierwitnesses, he would have undoubt-edly secured her freedom.

After hearing the charges and allof the witnesses, Judge Thomasfined Pearl Jenkins $65 and cost or30 days in jail, following his usualwarning.

Among other cases heard anddisposed of were the following:

Rufus Hunter and Frank Goreboth charged with fighting bothfined sls and cost or 10 days.

Perry Miller charged withcarrying concealed weapon (a knife)and disorderly conduct, using pro-fanity fined $35 and cost on firstcharge; second charge dismissed.

Margaret Dinkley charged with.unlawful possession and sale ofmoonshine sentenced to 10 daysin Jail, SIOO and cost or an addit-

ional 44 days.

George Taylor and Charles Clin-ton both charged with unlawfulpossession of moonshine bothfined $5 and cost or 6 days.

Sammy Miles charged with re-fusing to pay a taxi fare sen-tenced to 30 days.

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