Courthouses of Mississippi
March 13, 2015 § 4 Comments
Here’s the next helping. I still need your submissions.
Tallahatchie at Sumner – LP
Tallahatchie at Sumner – LP
Clarke – LP
Desoto – Wesley Hisaw
Forrest Chancery – Barbie Parham
Attala Chancery – Glen Huggins
Jones Laurel – Noelle McKinnin
Sunflower- Chancellor Jane Weathersby
Amite – Beverly Kraft
Attala – Glenn Huggins
Tippah – Vicki Childers
Tippah – Vicki Childers
The Better Chancery Practice Blog 
Beautiful pic of Sunflower County’s courthouse with the snow and all.
Last time I was in the Amite County courthouse in Liberty, there was a set of spittoons on the mantel of the main courtroom. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
Believe it or not, we had working spittoons in our courtrooms here in Meridian as late as the late 70’s. The trusties cleaned them out weekly.
WEEKLY???? UGHHHH!! I can’t imagine the lingering aroma of tobacco expectorant and cuds that must have permeated the courtrooms back then. And this is coming from a guy that is a smokeless tobacco user.
Smoking was allowed in the courtroom, even during trials. Judge Neville himself smoked a pipe while on the bench. There were cigarette burns on all the tables, and it was accepted practice to smush out your butts underfoot on the burn-pocked cork floor. Nobody gave it or the spittoons a second thought.