A.J. Honeycutt Guilty of Receiving Stolen Merchandise, Dec. 24, 1920

After less than 30 minutes’ consideration, a jury in the United States district court rendered a verdict of guilty in the case of A.J.Honeycutt, wealthy merchant of the Neuse, who was charged with having received merchandise stolen while in the course of interstate commerce, knowing it to have been stolen. Judge Henry G. Connor reserved sentence, pending the trial of other connected cases, but remanded the defendant to the custody of the marshall for safe-keeping. (From the Roanoke Rapids Herald, Dec. 24, 1920. He would be sentenced to five years in the Atlanta prison and fined $5,000.)