Raleigh, Dec. 22—Jesse Wyatt, sentenced from eight to 18 months last week for the killing of Attorney Stephen S. Holt, will not begin his sentence January 2 as Judge Midyette had ordered, but through Judge Midyette’s ruling today he will get a stay of judgment until March 15.
Mr. Wyatt is allowed to remain a free citizen until a new baby is born. The family desperately need shim now as he has eight children and two of them old enough to work. The Wyatt defense has not yet intimated that it will attempt to save him from a prison sentence. The plan is to allow him to go, work a portion of the time, then seek executive clemency since the jury which convicted him acquitted him of any felonious intent in the killing of Holt.
The jury took the view that the policeman carelessly, but accidentally, fired a pistol and the mishap resulted in death.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1925.
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