McDowell Court Docket 1914

The McDowell County WVa. Criminal Court

The records below were copied from the newspaper archives of the " McDowell County Recorder". The newspaper was started in 1914. The criminal cases are copied from January, 23, 1914, issue. This newspaper is on microfilm at the McDowell County Library in Welch WVa. I have copied the records word for word as is stated in the paper. The Mill of justice is slowly grinding through the docket of the Criminal Court. More good roads experts are furnished.

The McDowell County Criminal Court met in Regular session on the twelfth instant and up to the present writing has done the following business:   The grand jury at present term returned 4 indictments for murder, 56 for other felonies and 186 for misdemeaners.     The petit jurors appeared last Monday morning when the real grind began

1.State vs. Franklin Pollifico, pistol toter, confessed and took six         months on road and fine of $50. 2. State vs. Curtis Green, pistol, 6 months on road and $10 fine 3. State vs. Chas. Haskins, pistol, 6 months and $50. 4. State vs. John Chesmadia, pistol, 6 months, and $50. 5. State vs. Boyd Carrico, pistol, 6 months and $50. 6. State vs. Wm. Jones, assault and battery, thirty days and $50. 7. State vs. Chas. Brown: petty larceny, seven months on the road 8. State vs. Bail Howard, assault and battery. Four months and $50. 9. State vs. Wm. Lyons, Assault and battery, $5.00 fine. 10.State vs. Donets, unlawful retailing, sixty days and $25.00 11.State vs. John D. Nash, rule, $10 fine 12.State vs. Cas Robinson, pistol toter, six months and $50. 13.State vs. Smokeless Coal Co. Obstructing public road, $25.00 fine 14.State vs. Albert Giolossky, pistol toter. Six months and $50. 15.State vs. Fred Smith, pistol, Six months and $50. 16.State vs. W.H. Lawson, pistol, 6 months and $50. 17.State vs. Steve Salla, pistol, 6 months $50/ 18.State vs. B.H. Workman, pistol, nine months and $75. 19.State vs. Nennie Roody, pistol, six months and $50. 20.State vs. Park Richardson, pistol, six months and fifty dollars 21.State vs. Richard Sayers, pistol,  six months and $50. 22.State vs.Nathaniel Lacey, pistol, six months and $50. 23.State vs. Tom McCann, pistol, six months and $50. 24. State vs. Mattie Burgess, unlawful retailing, six months and $50. 25.State vs. William Mann, pistol, 12 months and $100.00 26.State vs. Frank Lingo, pistol, six months and $50. 27.State vs. Frank Galana, pistol, six months and $50. 28.State vs. John Moulton, A. and B. 30 days and $10. 29.State vs. Robert Mann, malicious wounding, five years in penitentiary. 30.State vs. Felix Stephenson, grand larceny, two years and six months in penitentiary. 31.State vs.  John Haston, volunteer manslaughter, five years with Warden Brown. 32.State vs. Roxie Burton, forgery, two years at Moundsville. Court is still grinding at the mill and will likely be busy until up into February.

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