The Recorder’s Court Tuesday was of short duration. Only two cases were tried and both prisoners got road sentences.
Carson Simpson, young negro youth, was charged with the theft of $7.50 from another negro. For it he was sent to the roads for four months.
The other case, and one that should prove a lesson to negroes generally, was that wherein Jim E. Leak was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, to wit a knife, on Wednesday night of last week. He cut a negro woman here. Judge Lowdermilk gave him a road sentence of six months. The Recorder is determined to put a stop to this business of promiscuous cutting or shooting, and a road sentence is the medicine.
From the front page of the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, May 13, 1926
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