Rockingham, June 10—The deputies from the sheriff’s office had a busy day Wednesday serving subpoenas upon 67 witnesses to appear in superior court in Raleigh at 9:30 next Monday morning in the Ormond-Cole suit for damages.
Fifteen witnesses were subpoenaed for the Ormond side, while 53 must go to Raleigh for the Cole side. This is the suit of Rev. A.L. Ormond, administrator of W.W. (Bill) Ormond who was killed on the streets of Rockingham last August 15 by W.B. Cole. Mr. Cole was tried at a special term of court here in Rockingham, with a Union County jury, on September 28, the trial finally ending on October 11 with a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Cole’s defense was self-defense and transitory insanity, based on the slander phase of the unwritten law.
Shortly after Mr. Cole’s acquittal, Rev. Mr. Ormond, as administrator, filed in Wake County a suit against Mr. Cole for $150,000 damages for the death of his son. The action is set for trial in Raleigh next Monday, and it is for this that the 67 Richmond County witnesses are summoned.
From page 7 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 11, 1926
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