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The Atlanta Constitution,
Wednesday, 19th November 1913,
PAGE 14, COLUMN 2.
Will Burnett, a negro, was convicted of
manslaughter in Judge Ben Hills division of the superior court on Tuesday. He
was given a twenty-year sentence.
The negro made a statement to the jury
in which he declared that in altercation with another negro, he was getting
beaten by a club and, in self-defense, he pulled a knife and stabbed the negro
through the abdomen. His statement saved him from sterner fate.
The negro was the first man charged
with murder to be tried by Judge Hill since his appointment to the criminal
branch of the Fulton county superior court.