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Mobile Sheriff and Deputies Indicted in Murder Case
Mobile County Sheriff Tom Purvis and eight deputies are indicted on charges of conspiring to violate Louis Wallace rights and aiding his ambush killing after a 1976 escape attempt. The case names Chief Deputy Charles Wimberly and others including jail warden John C. McCorvey Jr and deputies Cecil Byrd and James Stanford.
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Mobile
Alabama
Tom Purvis
UPI
Mobile, Ala
Purvis
Gadsden
Mobile County
Washington
Louis Wallace
Wallace
Prichard
Birmingham
Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Association
Alabama Peace Officers Association
Charles Wimberly
John C McCorvey Jr
William L. Shirley Jr
James J. Manning
Harry L Hutton Jr
Harold E Donald
Cecil E Byrd
James H. Stanford