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|l! l'nrsi In Nine Years k-| U was the first execution here j kjin 9 years, J. A. Yount, aged Hol-i S|hndale grocer, paid with his lilc o in the electric chair in January,1942 when the present Sheriff \V. Scot’ Thompson was serving as county prosecuting aitor-s|ney. Yount was convicted of murder of F. C. Pope, lawn marshal of Hollandalv.After his convicLion at the winter term oh court Inst January and sentence to the chair, an appeal was taken to the state supreme court. Last month the state’s highest tribunal overruled „ an appeal from the Washington:* county circuit court nnri rot the 3 dale of the execution.Follow inf the electrocution of Stone early today, Executioner Watson and John Laird of the Secretary of Slate’s office, who checked the time of the death of Stone, loaded up the stale’s portable electric chair in a covered truck and started the return trip to Jackson. gii..
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Fri, Jan 12, 1951
Page 7
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