Statesville, Sept. 3—“Not guilty” was the decision announced late this afternoon by Magistrate G. R. Anderson in the case against John L. Davis, Statesvlle attorney, charge with responsibility for the deathof Mrs. e. T. Hollingsworth, trained nurse, in an automobile wreck occurring on te Statesvlle Charlotte highway near the town of Troutman, six miles south of Statesvlle, July 30.
The investigation lasted for two hours. The prosecution was in charge of Solicitor Zeb V. Long, while the defendant was represented by attorneys Grier and Grier, and J. R. Glover Jr. large number of state’s witnesses were put on stand. Solicitor Long, endeavoring to show that the defendant, David, was driving a car under the influence of liquor on the night of the fatal collision, thus being responsible for death of the young woman with him.
The defense showed by testimony of good citizens that Mr. Davis was not only not intoxicated on the night of the tragedy, but that he was not driving the car, the evidence going to show that Mrs. Hollingsworth was at the steering wheel when the wreck occurred.
Mr. Davis himself went on the witness stand and testified that he was not drinking and that he was no driving at the time of the collision which resulted in the woman’s death in a hospital a few hours later. He stated that Mrs. Hollingsworth had been a nurse in the Greensboro hospital where he had been a patient and that he was accompanying her to the home of her parents in Charlotte.
His testimony as to drinking and driving the car was corroborated by other witnesses.
The verdict of the magistrate was quickly announced at the conclusion of the hearing.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 4, 1926
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