People v. Hendricks

In view of the zeal and insistency shown by counsel for defendant at the hearing on the motion for a new trial, I feel it is not amiss to record my views on the question presented. It is conceded by the defendant that both Alexander Hendricks and Joseph Knight are roustabouts, or what is commonly called in this community vagabonds. This concession is sustained by their record in the courts. While on a spree on the 2nd October they got into an altercation,, *242which had been superinduced apparently by some previous difficulty. It seems that Hendricks and another one of the “spree-ers” had been, a…