Butts County GaArchives News.....Shot Woodward - Remanded to Superior Court July 1909
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Butts County Progress July 1909
REMANDED TO SUPERIOR COURT

SHOT WOODWARD BECAUSE HE WHIPPED HIM THE NIGHT BEFORE IN A ROW OVER THREE 
DOLLARS – A PLAIN CASE OF MURDER

Cliff Campbell, colored, charged with the murder of A. C. Woodward, also 
colored at the camps of Mr. Theo Ellis at the reservoir last week,  was 
arranged for a hearing before Justice J. A. McMichael here Saturday.  He was 
remanded to the superior court to be tried for his life.

 A number of witnesses testified as to the killing.  There was a good many of 
the witnesses who testified to seeing the tragedy enacted.  Those swearing for 
the defense bore out the witnesses for the state as to the details of the 
crime.

It developed at the hearing that Woodward and Campbell had a fight on Monday 
night, at one o’clock in which Campbell received a thrashing.  Following this 
difficulty, which appears to have started about three dollars, Campbell then 
armed himself with a pistol and at 5 o’clock on Tuesday morning came upon 
Woodward asleep in his tent and shot him with fatal aim.  The bullet struck 
the victim about the hip and ranged upward.  Death was only a  matter of 
minutes.

The defendant took the stand and gave his version of the affair.  He admitted 
the killing and gave as his excuse or it the fight of the night  before.  He 
said he had told Woodward not to come in his tent but that he did come in his 
tent on the night of the fight.  It was then that he went off and got the 
pistol, he said and came back and shot “A.C.,” as Woodward was referred to by 
all the witnesses.

The defendant was not represented by counsel.

The witnesses for the State were Aaron Morgan, Frank Smith, Candy Nelson, John 
Anderson, Joe Towns and Hattie Warfield; for the defense Jim Holt, Jed Jones, 
Jessie Hodgefield, Sam Dozier and Joe Branner.  Mr. Theo.  Ellis also 
testified to examining the wounds of the deceased.

Campbell will likely be tried at the approaching session of the superior court.

Butts County Progress
Week of July 30, 1909


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