Hickory, April 7—T.L. Sigmon, former superintendent of public instruction of Burke county, and twice its representative in the State legislature, was convicted today in Catawba County Superior Court before Judge A.M. Stack in Newton on a charge of immorality.
He has been given his choice of six months on the Buncombe county roads or six months in the county jail and fined $250 and costs of the action.
Solicitor R.L. Huffman rested the State’s case after Miss Myrtle Godfrey, Sigmon’s former stenographer, swore that the defendant was the father of her child. The rest of the time was taken up with the testimony of character witnesses, most of them from Burke county, who swore to the previous good character of Mr. Sigmon.
Sigmon is a man about 55 years old.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, April 9, 1925
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