Fayetteville, July 2—The taking of testimony in the Skipper-Jackson flogging case was completed in Cumberland Superior court here today. The testimony in Walter Jackson’s defense took up the morning session and the afternoon was devoted to the state’s rebuttal. Jackson’s defense hinges on an alibi sworn to by himself and members of his family and neighbors.
The purpose of their testimony was that Jackson spent the entire afternoon of May 26 on his plantation in Robeson county, retired about 10:30 and did not leave the premises that night.
Bob Collins, a defense witness, was badly confused on cross-examination and finally admitted under Solicitor McNeil’s and W.C. Dowing’s questioning that he had recently traded off is wife for another man’s daughter. John Locklear, Croatan, for the state, testified that the day following the whipping of Rudolph Willard, in Cumberland county, Jackson told him in his store in Buie that he had shot a man who jumped on his running board near Hope Mills and that he expected the Cumberland sheriff to come after him any moment. Jackson denied ever having any conversation with Locklear.
From page 4 of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 4, 1925
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