Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 46
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 30, 1907
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Fined $10.00 for Homicide.
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Burl Giles was fined $10.00 Monday in county court for killing Frank Jenkins.
Both negroes.
The tragedy occurred at a baseball game and
Giles claimed that it was an accident. He was charged with negligent
homicide and to this charge he plead guilty.
The fine in such cases may be any sum not
exceeding $1000, and imprisonment in county jail, at option of court or jury.
In another case in district court, sometime
since, a negro was fined $1.00 for a similar offense.
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