Raleigh, March 29—Attorneys here are arranging to go before Governor McLean the middle of next month with an appeal for clemency in behalf of Jesse Wyatt, former Raleigh police detective, who went to state prison March 15 under an eight to 18 months indeterminate sentence for slaying Stephen Holt, prominent Smithfield attorney. Wyatt was convicted of manslaughter in Wake Superior Court last November. He killed Holt when he mistook his car for a rum-runner and fired in an attempt to stop it.
Especial interest attaches to news of the forthcoming appeal in his behalf because of the investigation now underway at Charlotte into the shooting of an alleged rum runner by police of that city last week.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Record, March 30, 1926
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