J.K. Doughton's Lawyers Confer, Dec. 5, 1925

Doughton Lawyers Confer About Case. . . Seem Confident That Their Client will be Acquitted of Charges

Greensboro, Dec. 4—In conference here today with Col. F.P. Hobgood, attorney for J.K. Doughton of Raleigh, charged with violation of the national banking laws, were Mr. Doughton, his father, R.A. Doughton, commissioner of revenue for North Carolina, and Col. W.S. O’B. Robison, noted attorney of Goldsboro. The conference was in preparation for the trial of young Doughton, set for December 14, in federal district court here, along with J.D. Norwood and M.L. Jackson, on like charges.

The three were indicted by a grand jury on the charge of violation of the law in connection with the failure of the People’s National Bank of Salisbury in June 1923. What plans were made at the conference were not disclosed, although defendants’ attorneys seem confident of acquittal.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1925

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