By the Associated Press
Beaufort, N.C., Aug. 2—Travis Coggins, young traveling man, arrested several weeks ago at Morehead City and charged with having attacked a young white woman of Beaufort, was released by Judge J. Lloyd Horton following a hearing of evidence in habeas corpus proceedings here today.
Solicitor Jesse H. Davis did not resist the defense counsel’s motion for dismissal. He said he did not think the evidence sufficiently strong to convict the young man of the crime charged against him, a capital offense.
Several young men from Nashville testified at the hearing of having had improper relations with the prosecutrix. Both the young woman and the young man she accused here took the stand to relate their sides of the case.
Coggins was congratulated by a number of persons following his dismissal. The young man originally was from Albemarle. He now travels for a publishing concern.
The crime charged against him was alleged to have been committed while “walking out” with the prosecutrix, whom he had just met at a dance at a Morehead City summer resort.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, August 3, 1924
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