was sent up for life
Item
- Title
- was sent up for life
- Source
- The Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
- Date
- 8/9/01
- page
- 7
- Identifier
- Image 7 of The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), August 9, 1901 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- guilty; life sentence
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- Black alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- sentencing
- Location
- in state; Hayneville Road, AL
- Length of story
- 333
- Description
- The Criminal division of the City Court. Judge W. H. Thomas presid- ing. was engaged almost all of yesterday In the trial of Robert Stone, a negro charged with the murder of Ben. Minter. a negro, and at 7 o'clock yesterday evening the Jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty at life Imprisonment. About nine months ago while Ben Minter, a young negro, was at a store on the Hayneville road at night with some companions, he was accosted by Robert Stone, who had served a term in the penitentiary, and after hot words Ben Minter was shot to death. Stone escaped but was subsequently captured. The aged father of Minter drove to the city, reaching here about 1 o’clock in the morning, and reported the shooting to The Advertiser. He was directed to police headquarters and the county Jail, where he gave information of the murder. The Jury which tried the case yesterday consisted of the following citizens: F. H. Merritt. A. A. Janney, Sr.. L. J, Bugg, B. C. Toole. J. T. Bedsole. J. D. Terrall. T. J. Kelly, .7. K. Carney. J. T. Holmes, M. P. Cajneron, A. C. Norman and T. H. Cochran. At 7 o'clock last night the Jury announced that It had reached a verdict and filed Into the courtroom. The verdict was handed by the foreman, F. H. Merritt, to Clerk Matthews, who read It to the court. The Jury was discharged and Stone Was taken to the county Jail. The case against Matt Goss and Henry King, negroes, charged with maliciously obstructing a railroad was continued until the next term of court on account of absent witnesses. The cases against Levi Upshaw, a negro, charged with rape, and Arthur Chambers and George Clifton, negro boys, charged with arson, will be called In the City Court today. Upshaw is charged with assaulting his daughter. Clifton and Chambers are charged with setting fire to a dwelling house on Jeff Davis Avenue and Court Street.
- Site pages
- Geography of Murder
