State Will Try Jesse Wyatt for Shooting Attorney S.S. Holt, July 13, 1925

State to Insist on Trial of Jesse Wyatt. . . Is Charged with the Murder of Attorney S.S. Holt in June

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, July 13—The State will insist on the trial of Jesse L. Wyatt, suspended plainclothes Raleigh policeman charged with the murder of Attorney S.S. Holt of Smithfield on June 1st, at the term of Wake County Superior court, which convened this morning, Solicitor W.F. Evans stated. The solicitor added that he will make a second presentment of the charges to the grand jury tomorrow. Previous indictment was squashed on the ground that the list of jurors which returned the first indictment was drawn by a boy over 10 years of age.

The present term of Wake Superior Court is being presided over by Judge W.A. Devin of Oxford. The term at which the indictment was quashed was presided over by Judge F.A. Daniels, of

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, July 13, 1925. Article ends in mid-sentence.

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