Fayetteville Observer
The two criminals employed as camp guards by the state in the Rocky Mount road district are serving the first of their 20-year terms in the state prison today as the result of speedy justice at the hands of Judge N.A. Sinclair of Fayetteville.
Overwhelmed by the evidence given at the coroner’s jury which probed the beating to death of Joe Armstrong, a negro prisoner, and with the evidence brought before Judge Sinclair, R.V. Tyler and W.C. Gulley pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter and threw themselves on the mercy of the court. The 20-year sentence was the limit which Judge Sinclair could give them under the circumstances.
Justice is becoming speedier in North Carolina. Other states could learn a lesson from the manner in which our fellow citizen handled Williamston mob case and the case of these two prison guards. Other judges in our own state can learn from him also. We, of his home city, are proud that we have been able to contribute so brilliant a legal mind to the bench of North Carolina, and believing, as we do, in the policy of saying the good things about a man before he dies, and not afterward, we salute the worthy jurist, and congratulate him heartily.
From the editorial page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, June 14, 1925
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