Postponement for the third time of the trial of Jesse Wyatt, former plainclothes detective of Raleigh, for the murder of S.S. Holt on June 2, was occasioned yesterday by the serious illness of Mr. Armistead Jones, senior member of the law firm Jones & Jones, and Horton, chief counsel for the defendant. The case will be tried on October 15.
The trial was set for this week after having been put off twice before on account to technicalities of the law. The third postponement seems unavoidable, Mr. Jones having been reported yesterday afternoon to be in a state of coma with no hope held out for his recovery.
The trial would probably have consumed the greater part of this week as there are quite a number of witnesses for the defense.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1925
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