Oxford, Dec. 1—“Capital punishment is a relic of barbarism, and I would like to see it abolished in North Carolina,” said Judge Henry A. Grady in passing alternative sentence on C.E. Snyder, convicted of manslaughter in the Superior Court Wednesday. The jurist’s opinion was elicited by the fact that of the original venire summoned to sit on the Snyder case exactly 20 had been excused when called on account of being opposed to capital punishment.
Snyder drew an alternative sentence of four months in jail and pay to the widow of Clarence White, the slain man, the sum of $2,000, or serve from three to five years in the penitentiary. He chose the former alternative.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1925
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