Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....To Hold Special Term of Court to Complete Docket March 14, 1925
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The Danville Bee March 14, 1925
STUART, VA. March 14—Judge Turner Clement has set April 20 as the date on which 
he will hold a special term of the circuit court for the purpose of completing 
the unusually congested docket.   The session just closed was one of the longest 
on record.   The grand jury returned 97 indictments alleging violations of the 
state liquor law and three charging felonies, making a total of 100.  The most 
of these being violations of court dealt with 48 cases altogether liquor law.
  The resulting condition is that the town jail is filled to over-flowing and 
seven prisoners have been taken to Martinsville there to be locked up because 
there is no room for them there.
  Fletcher Whitlock, charged with being an accomplice in the brutal murder of 
Ada Whaling, has been sentenced to serve twenty years in the penitentiary.  For 
the actual murder, John Wagoner has been sentenced to a life term.


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