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Affirmed:71 SOUTHEASTERN (2) 221 - GEORGIA BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCERP,
Affirmed:71 SOUTHEASTERN (2) 221 - GEORGIA BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCERP|
Affirmed:71 SOUTHEASTERN (2) 221 - GEORGIA BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCERP
BLACKSTON, James, Jre
Blackston, 4 29=year-old black laborer, lived on South Gaskin AVG ey
Douglas, Ga., with his wife, Lucille, and their two year old son
in a room rented in the home of another woman. On June 225 1951,
he left home about noon and instructed his wife to take their son
and go to the home of his mother, NEXESEUENS AX AMAL XAX LUEXABSUE
WAAR EREXSKMXHRSKXNSIEBURA «He returned home about midnight that
night after having been drinking and became enraged when he found
his wife asleep in their bed, He got an axe and struck at her,
The blow missed, but it Boke her and she ran into the room of their
landlady and crawled under the bed, Blackston pulled her out by
her leg and struck her three blows with the blade of the axe, two
lading in her face and one on the back of her head, He then went
to the police station and reported what he had done. The officers
who said that he was drinking but definitely not drunk went to the
house where they discovered the body lying by the side of the little
Son. Blackston was tried, convicted and sentenced to die in October
and on July 25, 1952, he was electrocuted at the Georgia State Pri-
Son, \
BLACKSTON, James, Jre
Blackston, @ 29=year-old black laborer, lived on South Gaskin AVG,
Douglas, Ga,, with his wife, Lucille, and their two year old son
in a room rented in the home of another woman. On June 22, 1951,
he left home about noon and instructed his wife to take their son
and go to the home of his mother, MEXESEUERSAX AMAL AK LHEXABSE,
HAART EMEXSHAXHNEKXNSXEBUKA ~He returned home about midnight that
night after having been drinking and became enraged when he found
his wife asleep in their bed. He got an axe a k at her.
The blow missed, but it Boke her and She ran into the room of their
landlady and crawled under the bed, Blackston pulled her out by
her leg and struck her three blows with the blade of the axe, two
lading in her face and one on the back of her head, He then went
to the police station and reported what he had done. The officers
who said that he was drinking but definitely not drunk went to the
house where they discovered the body lying by the side of the littld
Son. Blackston was tried, convicted and sentenced to die in Octobe7
and on July 25, 1952, he was electrocuted at the Georgia State Pri-
Sone
BLACKSTON, James, Jr.
Blackston, @ 29-year-old black laborer, lived on South Gaskin Ave.,
Douglas, Gas, with his wife, Iucille, and their two year old son
ina room rented in the hane of another woman, On June 22, 1951,
he left home about noon and instructed his wife to take their son
and go to the home of his mother, XAXBSEGMMACEKAEXKEYKEXAREUL
@ when he found
at her,
The blow missed,
landlady
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