About a month after the girls' deaths, the trial of George Stinney Jr. begins in Clarendon County court. The court appointed an attorney named, Charles Plowden, to hold the child's case but did little or nothing to defend his client or George Stinney, Jr.
Further, the administrators of the Alderman Lumber Company fired Stinney's father and ordered the family to go away from their home immediately. Fearing for their safety, the Stinney family fled that night to Pinewood in Sumter County, where Stinney's grandmother lived. Stinney's parents were unable to go to him from the time of his arrest on Annunciation Day and his trial and sentencing on April 24, 1944. Neither child's parents attended the hearing court. Stinney's father only returned to Alcolu once, to finish off their belongings after the family ran away.
A recap, a warrant was issued to George Stinney on March 29, 1944, after being inspected by a coroner. Sam Perry, one in every of the boys who found the girl's body, served as a jury in an exceedingly coroner's investigation. George Burke, also one of the men who found the girls, served as the foreman of the coroner's jury. Burke is listed as a member of the grand jury for the term of the Stinney indictment, and he is also listed as a witness on the Stinney indictment form.
C.R.F. Baker, M.D. and A.C. Bozard, M.D., examined the victims on quarter-day at 2 p.m. KST. Doctors said both girls' hymens were intact which the eldest daughter had "slight edema of the external genitalia and slight bruising to the proper genitalia, no other bruising on the body". They further reported that the victims suffered boils that look as if they had been caused by blows from a round instrument about the size of the head of a hammer, and that the two of the wounds suffered by Binnicker, "punched definite holes in the skull."
During the two-hour trial, George Jr.'s lawyer named Plowden didn't call witnesses or present any evidence that may cast doubt on the prosecution's case which was a foolish act. The foremost significant piece of evidence against Stinney was his alleged confession, but there's no record of the teenager admitting to the murder. At the time of the trial, Stinney had not seen his parents for weeks, for they were too terrified of being attacked by a white mob to travel to court, therefore, the 14-year-old boy was surrounded by strangers, 1,500 of them. After deliberation lasting for 10 minutes, the all-white jury found Stinney guilty of murder, with no recommendation of leniency.
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Mercy for George
Non-Fiction:: One-shot story 💭 Friday, March 24, 1944, little Stinney came home from school and brought his 9-year-old sister, Aime Lou, to the fields to exploit and graze their cow, Lizzy. The field was located between the houses and also near the railroad t...
