Thirty Surry county citizens have been summoned as jurors to serve in Stokes in the case in which the administrator of Walter Martin, deceased, is suing ex-Sheriff E.O. Shelton of Stokes for $5,000 damage. The case will be tried here at the summer term of Stokes court, being set for July 9th. At the former trial of the case the jury failed to agree.
The case originated over the killing of Martin near Walnut Cove about three years ago while Shelton was sheriff of Stokes county. The officers had information that a certain car loaded with liquor would pass by Walnut Cove and they were in waiting when the supposed car came in view. When the officers held it up it is claimed the officers and the parties in the car engaged in a pistol battle. Martin was killed, as one of Sheriff Shelton’s deputies. The sheriff was never indicted in the criminal courts for the death of Matin but his relatives have brought a civil action against him for damages.
the Surry men were drawn as jurors at Dobson on the first Monday of this month and have been summoned by Sheiff C.H. Haynes to appear at Stokes court July 9th. Their names follow:
T.G. Snow, Bryan
R.B. Short, Mt. Airy
Ernest Flynn, Shoals
B.E. Atkins, Eldora
G.F. Simpson, Eldora
C.E. Williams, Bryan
Tice Brinkley, Rockford
Cabell Collins, Pilot
H.F. Holifield, Rockford
S.M. Arnold, Elkin
W.L. Nixon, Franklin
Ransom Key, Dobson
J.F. Mosley, Elkin
C.W. Taylor, Mt. Airy
F.E. Hodges, Stewarts Creek
A.J. Snow, Rockford
Jacob Mitchell, Dobson
J.M. Smith, Pilot
J.A. Sparger, Mt. Airy
J.H. Stanley, Marsh
J.F. Yokley, Mt. Airy
J.S. Hiatt, Westfield
J.P. Owens, Shoals
J.H. Sprinkle, Pilot
S.D. Wall, Shoals
A.J. Badgett, Mt. Airy
G.T. Jones, Eldora
C.A. Smith, Bryan
J.A. Lowe, Long Hill
T.M. Stanley, Marsh
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, June 11, 1924
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