Raleigh, Aug. 24—“I am as satisfied as I could be of anything that when W.B. Cole goes on trial in Richmond county court he will win an acquittal verdict,” James A. Lockhardt, of the defense counsel, said here tonight.
Mr. Lockhardt said that any suggestion of submission to second degree or even manslaughter, would be out of the question.
Defense plans for the impending court battle for the life and freedom of W.B. Cole, millionaire cotton mill man of Rockingham, who slew Bill Ormond, his daughter’s suitor, were begun at a conference here today of his attorneys, but there was no public statement forthcoming to divulge the nature of the defense or the circumstances on which it will be based.
The statement, which had been expected this afternoon, may be issued tomorrow, it was indicated.
During today’s meeting James H. Pou, chief of counsel, addressed a letter to Solicitor Don Phillips and a copy to Governor McLean, asking that Cole’s trial await the regular October term of Richmond county criminal court, and indicating by inference that the defense will not ask for a continuance. Governor McLean has an engagement with Solicitor Phillips for a conference tomorrow regarding the solicitor’s request for a special term in September to try Cole.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, August 25, 1925.
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