Raleigh, N.C., July 31 (AP)—Nevin C. Cranford, former convict boss of Stanly County, acquitted this week on a double charge of murder, will be placed on trial at the September term of court in Stanly county on a charge of assault upon Henry Wooten, a convict.
This statement was made over long distance today to the Associated Press by Solicitor Don M. Phillips, at Rockingham. Mr. Phillips added that many persons were asking why had Cranford not been tried for other acts of cruelty which were alleged during the trial this week. He answered the question with the declaration that while the alleged attack upon Wooten, which was in 1925, and the murder charges were felonies, the cruelty charges were misdemeanors and were barred by the statute of limitations.
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Came as Surprise
Albemarle, July 31 (AP)—Surprise was expressed by R.L. Brown, one of the defense attorneys in the recent trial of N.C. Cranford when told today that Solicitor Phillips intended to press an assault charge against the former convict boss. Mr. Brown said it was the understanding of defense counsel when Mr. Phillips left Albemarle that the charge of assault with a deadly weapon upon Henry Wooten, negro, would be dropped.
“We will be ready, though,” Mr. Brown declared.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 31, 1926
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