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Pike County GaArchives News.....Jim Crawley Gets Life Sentence; Redge
CrawleyAnd
Stiles Mitchell Freed April 14 1911
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Griffin Daily News and Sun
Jim Crawley Gets Life Sentence; Redge Crawley
And Stiles Mitchell Freed
One of the Most Celebrated Murder Cases in Pike County
Ends --- Jury Out Only Short Time.
In the case of the State versus J.M. Crawley, O. R. Crawley and Stiles E
Mitchell, Charged with the murder of Former Marshall William Carden, of
Milner, in Pike
Superior Court at Zebulon, the jury returned a verdict yesterday afternoon
of
not guilty in the case of Redge Crawley and Mitchell and of guilty in
the
case
of Jim Crawley, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court,
acting on
which Judge Daniel imposed a sentence of penal servitude for life on the
latter and allowed Redge
Crawley and Mitchell to go free. The jury was out only a few hours.
The case was one of the most celebrated in Pike county since the famous
murder trial of the Delks for the killing of Sheriff Gwynne and attracted
attention throughout the State. The old man Carden was killed in the
public
road between Orchard Hill and Milner in Pike county last October as
he was
on
his way to Milner to attend a Masonic meeting. The Crawleys and
Mitchell
were
arrested several days later, charged with the killing. In the trial
the
Crawleys sought to prove a plea of self-defense and it was attempted to
show
that they had been threatened by Carden on many occasions. It will
be
remembered that Carden killed a brother of the Crawleys while marshal of
Milner and ill feeling and bad blood existed. There were eighty-five
witnesses who testified in the trial and the case was stubbornly fought by
both defense and the State. The State was ably represented in the trial
by
Solicitor J.W. Wise, Lloyd Cleveland and Lucien Goodrich, while the
defense
was equally ably represented by E.F. Dupree, T.E. Patterson, J.F.
Redding
and
E.M. Owen. The trial consumed the entire time of court from Monday
morning
until Thursday afternoon.
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