Covington County AlArchives Court.....Gus Carpenter November 14 1908
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Source: Courthouse In Andalusia
Written: November 14 1908
Recorded: May 3 1909

Gus Carpenter- Vagrancy
No. 749
The State of Alabama, Covington County 
The City Court of Andalusia
The State vs. Gus Carpenter
Charge- Vagrancy
State Trial Docket-2  Page 97, Final Record- 2 page 274, 
Fee Book 3 Page 334
 
(At the Moment the INDEX books have been misplaced in the basement or somewhere 
in the Courthouse)


May 3, 1909
The City Court Of Andalusia, The State of Alabama, Covington Co.
 
Before me W. H. Jones, Clerk Circuit Court and Ex- Office Clerk of the City of 
Andalusia, in and for said State and County, personally appeared ORIE 
CARPENTER, who, being by me duly sworn; doth depose and say that he/she has 
probable cause for believing, and doth believe that in said County, and within 
twelve months before making this affidavit that GUS CARPENTER, being an able-
bodied person, did abandon his wife and child (ren) either of them, without 
just cause, leaving her or them without sufficient means of subsistence, or in 
danger of becoming a public charge, against the peace and dignity of the State 
of Alabama.
ORIE CARPENTER X (her Mark)
Sworn to & subscribed before me on this the 14th day of November 1908.  W.H. 
Jones Clerk.
Against the Peace and dignity of the State of Alabama  E.R. Brannen  Pro-Term 
Solicitor of the 12th Judicial Circuit
 
 
The City Court of Andulasia
THE STATE VS. GUS CARPENTER, defendant
Affidavit   Charge: Vagrancy
State Witnesses:  Orie CARPENTER
George Reeves, Lewis Thrower, Richard Grantham, B.F. Mills, 
CARY CARPENTER swore don't know where he lives. (written in pencil)
Note: Cary C. Carpenter was Gus's Father.
Filed 3 day of May 1909
W.H. Jones, Clerk
 
Received in office Nov. 14, 1908 W. J. Prestwood
Executed this 1st day of May 1909 by arresting the defendant and commiting him 
to JAIL.
W.J. Prestwood Sheriff
J.N. Jernigan Deputy Sheriff
Warrant  of Arrest.
The City Court of Andalusia
The State of Alabama, Covington County, Warrant of Arrest
  To any Sheriff of the state of Alabama-Greeting:
    You are gereby commanded commanded to arrest GUS CARPENTER
 and bring him before the City Court of Andalusia at once, to answer the 
State of Alabama of the Charge of
A Charge of Vagrancy.   Preferred by ORIE CARPENTER, provided, you may release 
the Defendant upon the execution of a Bond in due form, with sufficient 
securities, to be approved by you and conditioned accprding to law, for his 
appearance at the next term of the City Court of Andalusia, and from term to 
Term until discharged by law, to answer to said charge, said bond to be the sum 
of $------ (blank)
   Witness, W. H. Jones, Clerk of City Court of Andalusia, This the 14th day of 
November, A.D. 1908   W.H. Jones... Clerk
  
2nd page
The State of Alabama, Covington Co. The City Court of Andalusia
The State VS. GUS CARPENTER
Sheriff's Appearance Bond, with Waiver   
Sureties- Gus Carpenter Amount $200.00
    We, GUS Carpenter, C.C. (Cary C.) Carpenter & B.F. Mills agree to pay 
The State of AL.  TWO HUNDRED Dollars, unless Gus Carpenter appears 
at the next term of the City Court of Andalusia,  said County, convening not 
less than ten days hereafter, and from day to day, and from term to term, 
Thereafter, until discharge by due course of Law, to answer  A CRIMINAL 
PROSECUTION against HIM. In said Court, for the offense of Vagrancy- and we, 
and each of us hereby waive all rights of claims of exemption we or either of 
us have now or may have hereafter have, under the Constitution and Laws of the 
State of Alabama. We hereby severally 
certify that we have Property Free from all incumbrance, to the full amount of 
the above Bond.
  Witness our hands & seals, this 2 Day of May 1909  W.J. Prestwood , Sheriff 
Gus Carpenter (L.S.) his X
C.C. Carpenter (L.S.) 
B.F. Mills   (L.S.)




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