By the Associated Press
Raleigh, Oct. 13—After 12 hours deliberation, the jury sitting on the case of W.C. Cotton and his son, Coy, Wake county, farmers charged jointly with the murder of Milton Woodlief, son-in-law of the elder Cotton, September 2, returned a verdict of not guilty in Wake county superior court this morning. The defense had contended self defense. Mrs. Woodlief, on the witness stand, testified in behalf of her father and brother, declaring that her husband had assailed her father with a chair and that her brother had entered the altercation in defense of his father.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Oct. 14, 1923
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