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Vol,
XIX.
DeLand, Fla., Wednesday, April 24, 1907.
No
23
LAW SENIORS
PLEAD CASES
Men of'07 Wield Sword of:
Justice.
One of the most interesting
and instructive features of the
law course is the practice court
work that is required of all the
students in the Law Department
before graduation.
During the winter term each
student argues several civil cases.
In the spring term the criminal
cases on the docket are taken up.
With some member of the State
bar on the bench the students find
themselves face to face with the
actual conditions of a court room
with which they will no doubt be
confronted during the first year
of their practice.
The first case to be taken up
this year was the State of Florida ,
vs Pattishall, charged with murder in the first degree.
After the arraignment of the
prisoner, the jury was finally se-
Jected. State Attorney K. S.
Geiger then read the indictment.
This was truly a masterpiece. As
it was absolutely unintelligible, to
most of those in the court room
it is presumed that it was gotten
up in due form.
The State Attorney was assisted
by A. D. McNeil. The State,
through its witnesses, Hamlin
and Pelot, brought out a strong
line of circumstantial evidence
against the defendant. Messrs.
Carl Noble and George Leitner
for the defence made a strong plea
for their client. The jury, after
being in the jury room only a few
minutes, brought in a verdict of
guilty.
On Friday afternoon the case of <
The State of Florida vs. Carl No-!
ble, indicted for robbery. The1
indictment set out that the defendant had robbed the express1
car on the Atlantic Ouast Line
near DeLand Junction. The Stafp
was represented by State Attorney G. W. Geiger, assisted by
Attorneys McGeachy and Single-
terry. Campbell and Pattishall;
represented the defence. The
evidence was purely circumstan-;
t al and a verdict of acquittal was;
rendered.
The next case on the docket,
which will be heard some time'
this week, is The State of Florida
vs. Carl Noble, indicted for grand
larceny. Messrs. Hamlin and
Pelot for the State; Messrs. Kirby and G. W. Geiger for the defence.
Crucible Club.
An apparatus for the measurement of osmotic pressure has just;
been received for the Chemical
Laboratory from Eimer and
Amend of New York.
The demand for these pieces
has been so great that although
the order was placed almost a
year ago, it has only now been
filled.
Mr. L. Hendricks has been
working for several weeks on the
preparation of a semi-permeable
cell which is now complete. This
cell will be attached to the new
manometer and the whole piece
exhibited before the Crucible
Club Thursday evening.
The club extend a cordial invitation to all those interested to
be present.
SPRING TERM
TENNIS STARTS
Sixteen Enter Singles, and
Doubles Follow.
Thursday evening Miss Martien and
i.liss Grace Cramer were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith.
Last week, sccording to announcement, the preliminaries of
the Tennis Tournment in singles
were played. Through the kindness of Messrs. Hamlin and Selden, the use of extra courts was
obtained, making it possible to
play off in one afternoon all the
contests in each round of preliminaries. This was quite an advantage, as it prevented that lag'
ging of interest and enthusiasm
which always results from a long
drawn out series of preliminaries.
A goodly number of players—-
1(3 in all—of all classes and degrees of excellence entered the
lists on this occasion. These
were all shaken up indiscriminately in a hat—that is, their
names were—and opponents chosen bv lot. As a result the following contests were pulled off
at different times Wednes lay afternoon, with the results indicated :
WINNER
W. Chris+y vs. Pierce — Fierce; 6 1, 6-1
Tilden vs. Walk- r Walker, 4-6. 6 4, 6-3
Hamlin vs. P. Selden Selden, default
Taylor v*. J ones Jones, 6-0, 6-4
Moffatt vs. Woodward.. Woodward, 6-3, 6-3
G. Seiden vs. Turnquist.. Turnquist, 6-4, 6-1
Blocker vs. Cotton Blocker, 6-2, 6 3
L. Christy vs. Shay Shay, 6-2, 6-1
On the next afternoon the winners met each other as follows :
WINNER
Pierce vs. Walker Pierce, 6-1, 7-9, 6-J
P. Selden vs. Jones Jones, 6-3, 6-2
Woodward vs. Turnquist. Woodward, 6-1, 6 2
Blocker vs. Shay S-hay, 6-3, 6-2
The process of elimination left
only four men in the game. They
played Friday afternoon.
WINNER
Pierce vs. Jones ... Pierce, 6-0, 6-1
Woodward vs. Shay Shay, 6-4, 6-2
As a result of Saturday's rain
the finals were postponed until
