Judge Wright to Hold Court at Albemarle Next Week, May 5, 1925

R. Lee Wright Is an Emergency Judge. . . Commissioned by Governor McLean to Hold Court at Albemarle Next Week

Salisbury Post

R. Lee Wright, prominent Salisbury lawyer and former judge of the Rowan county court, has the honor of being one among the first emergency superior court judges to be appointed by Governor McLean, these emergency judges being provided for an act of the last legislature in lieu of the creation of new judicial districts and the naming of new all time judges.

Mr. Wright goes to Albemarle next Monday to open and hold Stanly county superior court. He was commissioned by Governor McLean for this duty. He will preside over this court in place of Judge T.D. Bryson of Bryson City, who has been designated by the Governor to preside over a special term of Moore county court in Carthage next week, this special term being for the trial of a negro charged with a criminal assault upon a white woman.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, May 5, 1925

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