The second arrest here within a month on warrants charging the defendant with a crime against nature came Saturday afternoon when Detectives E.D. Earnhardt placed in the city jail Robert Penion, 18-year-old white boy.
One young white man was given the minimum sentence of five years in the penitentiary during the criminal court session of last week. The state law provides that a person convicted on such a charge may be sentenced to prison for not less than five years nor more than 60. Penion will be tried before Recorder Laurence Jones Monday.
From The Charlotte News, Sunday morning, July 24, 1921
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Pinion Bound Over
Robert Pinion, 18-year-old white youth, was bound over to superior court under bond of $200, when probable cause was found against him on a charge of sodomy. A half dozen negroes were in court to testify against Pinion, two of whom were placed on the witness stand. A crime against nature is punishable by a prison sentence of not less than five years nor more than 60.
From The Charlotte News, Monday, July 25, 1921
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