Joe Cockerell was ordered held without bond for trial in Superior Court on charge of killing Sam Jackson, negro, on August 18th, by a Coroner’s jury this afternoon. Cockerel was apprehended late yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Glover, Deputy Flowers and Chief of Police Dorsey at the home of his uncle in Taylor township.
According to the evidence brought out by the coroner’s inquest, which was conducted by Coroner W.C. Pearson, Sam Jackson was pulling fodder in a corn field on Mr. George Dew’s farm, about six miles fro Wilson, on the afternoon of August 18th, when an unknown white man appeared and demanded some whiskey on (or?) cider. After being told by the negroes that they didn’t have anything to drink, he got in an argument with Jackson.
Jackson’s companions, Tom Smith, Otis Taylor and John Smith, all colored, testified Jackson and the white man argued and finally made a bet in regards to pulling fodder. They went on about their work and soon afterwards a short was fired and the white man left the field running. They found Jackson on the ground dead.
Cockerel was identified by the three negroes as the white man who was in the field at Jackson met his death. Mr. William Poythress also testified that he had seen Cockerell walking through that section with the gun. cockerel was returned to the county jail and will probably face trial in Superior Court sometime this week before Judge Devin.
The Coroner’s Jury was composed of the following: Messrs. W.C. Burden, W.G. Bullock, J.E. Brewer, F.P. Waters, George R. Dew and J.E. Thompson.
From the front page of the Wilson Times, Tuesday, September 2, 1924
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