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Negro Who Killed Officer is Given Life Sentence

Negro Who Killed Officer is Given Life Sentence

Special to The News.

Athens, Texas. Feb. 25. - George Davis, negro, who killed Constable J. W. Hopson here some time ago, was given a life sentence, verdict being ordered last night after the jury had deliberated for forty-eight hours. Davis was taken to jail in Dallas.

Dallas Morning News
February 26, 1918
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