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Death Sentence Of Two SaUofs Upheldtnfnin01la\vintui»tfcAlifelt;11i1tl11JACKSON. Miss, m — Dcnth sentence conviction of two AWOL sailors who confessed killing and robbing former Sheriff Tom S. Boykin of Wnync connly .Jnsl-November 13—one year npo today— were upheld by the Mississippi supreme court mid execution date set for December 2fhMaurice ShimnJok of Madison, Wis., anil Joseph O.' M. Leemon of Near Bessemer. Ala,, who confessed to blackjacking Boykin and then slitting bis throat when lie began to regain conscious ness, lost their appeal fur it new Inn I.rrAll 24 errors claimed by counsel for the Isvn .indors were overruled hy live court. Including denial of a million fur a new trial, denial of transfer of I he case lo a Juvenile Lcnirt mid the argument that If another trial wcie authorized. the boys, both IK. might get off with a iife sentence.The Lcngiliy opinion scl out In detail the crime, as confessed by the sailors, who did not appear In their own behalf nl the I rial and did not dispute ;i confession given just after their arrest in ficorgiii.They Mild they fashioned n blackjack and sharpened a knife one of them owned the night of it the killing; they turned down of-, fers or rides in ears with more, than ore persons, and caught a'; ride with Boykin in Waynesboro.!' Few miles below town they struck j him, then slit bis throat when he; tried to cry out, before they rob-, bed him of $flO and his gasoline ration Ixiok.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Mon, Nov 13, 1944
Page 5
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