Butts County GaArchives News.....Allen Goolsby – Homicide June 9 1883
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Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 21, 2004, 4:23 pm

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of June 9, 1883
Early on last Monday our usually quiet little city, was thrown into a fever of 
excitement by Allen Goolsby walking into Judge Carmichael’s office and 
announcing that he had just killed George Wise, both colored, and that he, 
Goolsby had come to give himself up to the proper authorities.  The killing 
occurred on one of the farms of Col. M.V. McKibben, on the railroad near 
Kimball post office.  The difficulty arose from a dispute about the cultivation 
of some land rented by Goolsby from Wise which resulted in the stabbing of Wise 
with a knife near the heart, killing him instantly.

Goolsby claims that the killing was done in self-defense, and the coroner’s 
jury’s verdict put it as involuntary manslaughter, but the opinion of others 
from testimony gathered is different.  Goolsby is now lying in jail waiting the 
action of the Superior Court, having waived a preliminary trial before the 
County Court.

The coroner’s jury returned the following verdict:  

We, the jury, find that George Wise came to his death by a wound inflicted by a 
knife in the hands of Allen Goolsby.  We further find that Allen Goolsby, in 
inflicting said wound committed the offense of involuntary manslaughter.

Dutch Thompson, Coroner.




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