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•*After Release From Jail^HOUSTON (UPI)- Slender, brown - eyed Enola Cox finally managed to salvage something ofal happy ending for herself.'Late Wednesday there was nowedding march, nor was there any flowers in the chambers of Criminal Dist. Judge Sam Davis. But there were stars in Mrs. Cox’Alabama JudgeIs Challenged« C-xIn Tax Case** t7nit«d Press International)'Attorneys for Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr., have asked that a special judge presiding at King’s tax perjury trial in Montgomery, Ala., dis-q|uify himself on grounds of*The judge, James J. Carter, refused and King was scheduled to be arraigned on charge that he swore falsely in making state-nfents about his income in filing Alabama returns. King, leader of tlje passive Montgomery bus boycott to end bus segregation in the Alabama capital several years ago, is now a resident of Atlanta,Ge.**Contention Citedttomeys contended thatis not a “disinterested party in the case and that hefavors total racial segregation.Hie attorneys also contended that Carter’s selection as special judge to hear the case was invalid because the circuit clerk who appointed him, John Matthews, “was elected illegally in 1935 “jvhen Negroes were harassed and systematically excluded from voting in Montgomery County.'King’s attorneys also have asked that the trial be moved on grounds that King cannot obtain a* fair trial in Montgomery.‘A Knoxville, Tenn., area human relations council Wednesdayfull support behind lunch counter desegregation efforts. The council commended Ne-eyes.She had just been re-mrried to her former husband, Robert G. Cox, a husky 36-year-old former Marine now working for a steel company, and father of her littlegirl.Davis brushed aside legal formalities to marry the couple in his courtroom minutes after Mrs. Cox had been released from jail and given five years probation on a series of forgery cases and a theft case.There had been a previous marriage for Mrs. Cox before she was married to Cox in 1955. She had another daughter, now 12, by her former husband, but doesn’t know where the older girl is now.Divorced In ’57Mr. and Mrs. Cox were divorced in 1957 and she told of struggling to support their baby. Cox, meantime, had gone to the veterans hospital where he was under treatment for nearly a year.Mrs. Cox said her troubles piled up until in January this year she stole a credit card and other items, coming to a total of $232.83. She was caught promptly, and spent the past four months injail.Wednesday Cox took the witness stand and told Davis:“I love her, judge. I want to re-marry her. I'm getting on my feet again and I’ll make a home for her and the baby.Cox also promised to pay back the $232 to the people his wife had swindled.They so impressed Davis thathe used a little known provisionin the law to waive the three-day waiting period and they were remarried within 30 minutes.Injunction IssuedOn Insurance Firm! ... i.
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Fri, May 20, 1960
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