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V/ IMPROVED FARM PRA< . *yJB* to derail an At l Carolina trataon two occasions was ordered 1 to the State Hospit were mentally capable of stand ing trial on tide charge. James de0 Perry wasassess ed the court costs in a reckless driving case. An enWzlement charge against J. L. Eason waa noUe pressed, Thad was fined $100 and costs cm a drunken driving Harvey E. Morton was fined $50 and costs in a larceny case, Well Moore was placed on three years probation. on an assault with a deadly weapon count. Edward Strayhom was’order ed to pay $50 and costs in an other assault with a deadly wea pon charge. Willlfe Jones drew the usual $100 and costs for; drunken driving. Omle mil drew two yfeark for assaulting a female. \ Cliff Moore was found not guilty of whipping his wife after she had testified that "he just ‘breshed’ me a little.” ■. , 'V. Chess Roberts was fined $50 and the court costs for assault with a deadly weapon and John nie Gardner was onjered to ^ay $700 back to an insurance com pany that had employed him and also pay the court copts. "We Wuz Robbed” From left to right above Stal ings Air Base Fire CUcf T. A. Jones, Mrs. A. W. Lieb, wife Of a Carolina Power and Light Company employee, and William J. Best are seen as they appear ed before tiie Kinston City Connell Monday night, protest ing what they called, exhecbi tant utilities rates. Best, near the end of the complaint period suggested to the standing-room only crowd of petitioners that they take their complaint ot the State Utilities Commission. Mrs. Ueb saSd “Our electric bin is so high I pan’t afford stockings. These I’m wearing are some my mother gave me.” Several oth ers who spoke said that the high rates would force them to leave Kinston. Many asked that their area, Greenmeade, which is jnst outside the city limits be an nexed so they would not have to continue paying the 20 per cent extra on their utility Miu The aldermen promised to study their petitioned complaints and give the group a report at a later meeting. (Polaroid Pho to-in-a-minute by Jack Rider.) 'TnsnrJo5 serving a to. of 54 years in State Prison was seeking a,'retrial. . >, , ; Kinston Attorney Charles b. Aycock had been appointed by the courts to represent Parker and it la generally conceded t>y those who watched Aycoek’s presentation of the case that a superlative Job was done. Perhaps the biggest pan of Aycock’s Job fell into the very direct category of getting around the opposition that is felt in offi cial circles for this new law un der which Coram Nobis hearings are begun. Every court official who has expressed himself, either public ly or privately, Is violently op posed to the Coram Nobis pro cedure. They contend that it is in effect "toying every case twice.” ' But that, of course, is not exactly correct. A review of the Hosea Parker Jn P|P , , ed to the dteene County jail at Snow Hill, where he says.be ■■■tin*,held incommunicado for two days during which he was constantly and violently questioned by* i*r lays of law enforcement offi cers from Greene and other counties in which the long string rof breakings and \enterings had been committed, along with of ficers from the State Bureau of Investigation. Parker says that a confession was finally beaten out of him by Greene County Deputy Sheriff Fred CJarraway, after he had been without sleep and with very little food or water oraf a. 48 hour period. vv A > \ Parker further says that aft er that' confession was obtained from him by duress ite was quickly taken Into • colli* and there convicted on the basis of that confession and with very consecutive sentences totalling 54 rears. In- petitioning the court last week for a new trial In each of these cpses Parker, through the able representation of Counsellor Aycock, contends that his Con stitutional rights were frequent ly, obstinately and continuously ignored. | He cpntends that he was con victed by a confession which was obtained from him after he had been beaten, starved and kept ajvake for nearly two days. He contends tha; he was de nied the right cf being repre sented by counsel. He contends that he was held without privilege of bond and without haying been given a hearing before a competent magistrate, and that his bond was fixed arbitrarily high and by a person not authorized to fix a continuing bond. In support of these contentions Parker’s counsel has arrayed a Of course, the officers involv ed in the conviction of Parker deny each and all of his allega tions and perhaps the single strongest point in substantiation of Parker’s complaint lies in his aggregate sentence. To receive a total of 54 years from counts in four counties, each of which imposed consec utive rather than concurrent sentences, is recognized as far more severe than th& usual sen-1 tencing in sucli cases in which only breaking and entering are charged. Parker did receive a small part of his sentence for trying to burn the jail in Snow Hill while he was held there, but the bulk of it came form break ing and entering Indictments. Even those who strongly oppose the Coram Nobis procedure as expensive and a waste of the taxpayers’ money and the court’s time agree that it would have , It is admitted that any lawyer worthy of his salt would have been able to exchange the “confession” for some con current sentences, since the law enforcement officers were eager to clear up the long string of robberies and would have “swapped” a little time for such an all-encompassing confession. The matter, of course, now rests squarely in the lap of Judge Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill before whom the pleadings were made. It is completely within his descretion to allow or to refuse Parker’s plea for a new trial, conducted on a basis more favorable to his side. Parker, a young, erect, well-ed ucated Negro man, showed that he also had some foundation in Constitutional Law during his cross examination in last week’s hearing. When asked why his wife had not subpoenaed wit nesses in his behalf, Parker very Continued on Pace 5 Controls Are Worst Possible Kind
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