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Court Rules Against Mansel, Sets Date for Electrocution, May 27, 1926

Supreme Court Rules Against Mansel

Raleigh, May 27 (AP)—Alvin Mansel, Buncombe county negro convicted of attacking a white woman, must die in the electric chair at State Prison, the State Supreme Court decided today. No error sufficient to order a new trial was found by the court. June 11th, the third Friday after the certification of the opinion, is automatically set as the date for the electrocution.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 27, 1926

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