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Enters PleaWr1ftOf Cuilty InBurjjlaryDefendant InKannapolis CaseI Solis Over VerdictBv FLOYD ELLINGTON Independent Staff Writer)CONCORD, Oct. 19. -William Horace Sanders todav began serving 20 years inprison for burglarizing aKannapolis home on the night of September 21.The 30-vear-old Cabarruscountlan tendered a plea of ®guilty of second degree burglary in Cabarrus Superior court yesterday afternoon, and the state accepted the lea. Sanders was sentenced y Judge Allen H. Gwyn ofReidsville.merit and that the judye would send a lettei to Central prison a* Raleigh asking that Sanders begiven a complete mental t*st andpossibly placed under the care of a psychiatrist A packed courtroom watched the dramatic trial that ended with a shaken, sobbing Sanders being helped out of the room bv41 wife. Judge Gwvn pronouncedthe sentence at 4:30 p. m.Attorney Eugene T. Bost, Jr.. of Concord served as private prosecutor for George W. Armstrong of Kannapolis, whose home at 207 North Ridge Avenue wasallegedly entered unlawfully by Sanders.Judge Gwyn said that Sanders appealed to need mental treat- ^ |baitGerCouThtoffiOTHER CASES I for( a«p* involving a theft at ^ori W the I. M, Youngblood wholesale grocery warehouse. Concord. are being tried today inC abarrus Superior court.Harrv M. McBride faces a charge of breaking and en-tering. Robert Eugene McBride, C. O. Nadine, H. B.Shoaf and Banks Ragan of Lexington are charged withreceiving stolen goods.Slated for trial his afternoon is a murder case in f\ which James Wilscn Boat,colored, Is defendant.L(II tion pan com agghis tearful mother and saddened ASovCzvmeiUteeconact1peaa PipolparTheratotioRuV’lt;naofdaDespite his amity plea, tendered bv his attorney, Bernard W. Cruse of Concord. Sanders maintained steadfasMv that he did not l ecall the burglary.Judge Gwyn examined Sanders’ long criminal record, which includes several convictions for larceny, prowling and at least one for being a peeping tom.”'What made you do such things’ ’ th judge asked the tall, pa dark-haired defendant. jSanders hesitated — his face °f worked — he locked down, thenraised his head and said slowly m a small, husky voice: I don t jknow He choked and cleared ailhis throat. His mother sobbed Ursoftly trom a scat behind him ticHis pretty blonde wife looked a’ ch the floor, h r lips trembling. ga I d’.dn’t know I did it ithelstiArmsilong burglary), but I must have. Sanders continued. Thenhe paused, looked down, andlooked up again: “If I'm guilty of all these things, there must be something wrong with me.The judge said he agreed, and !. h t he hoped the mental experts •■’at Raleigh would find out what and give treatment for it. USanders entered the courtroom at jressea neatly in a double- nContinued On Page 13 vtcoatthteorthor
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1950
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