Sentencing of William Brinson, white man, who was convicted Friday of incest to 10 years in the penitentiary, and altering the sentence imposed on Luther Foy, making his penalty for arson two years on the county roads, rather than in the state penitentiary, were the final acts of Judge Henry A. Grady in Superior Court, which wound up a week’s term yesterday.
Brinson, convicted on a charge of incest in connection with his own 14-year-old daughter, retained the same composure when the sentence was pronounced that he had throughout the trial. He heard the sentence without a change of facial expression, and left the court room smiling. “See you later,” were his words to friends as he walked back to the jail.
The prisoner will be taken to Raleigh tonight by Sheriff J.D. Williams and turned over to the warden of the penitentiary.
The final work of the court was characteristic of the docket of the entire week. Court officials admitted it was the heaviest docket in many years. Two murder trials, that of Brinson’s, the returning of true bill against Guy Watson, the report of the grand jury, and scores of minor cases constituted the business of the week.
From page 4 of the New Bernian, Sunday, June 10, 1923
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