A Short Term Of Court

When the cironit conrt opened JVlonday there were 66 cases on thé docket, but the legal fraternity are so bnsy with pulitics that 58 of the cases were put over until the nexfc term. The jury was dismissed yesterday morning. The first case tiied was tbat of People vs. Jesse Sebring, larceny. The jury retnmed a verdict of not guilty. The charge was the stealing of Dr. Darling's horse. In the People vs. Bert Stoll, larceny, the prisoner pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years at Ionia for stealing the horse of E. S. Hagaman, of Mancheeter. Mary E. Battin, the widow of the late Probate Judge Batfcin, of Steubenville, O., was brought up for iarceny. She acknowledged the deed, bot pleaded for clernency, saying that she must have been intoxioated when she did it. Judge Kinne dismissed her on suspended sentenoe. The case of tbeCity of Ann Arborvs. William W. Whedon, was an appeal from Justioe Dnffy's court wbere the defendant was tried for an infraotiou of the sidewalk ordinance in not having built a stone sidewalk when ordered to do so by the common oouncil and acquitted. Mr. Whedou's attorneys made the motion that the oase be dismissed, maintaining that it was a criminal aotion that was brought against hiru in the justice conrt and having once been on trial and acquitted of a crime he conld not be tried again. The judge snstained the argument and dismissed the case.