Johnson County GaArchives News.....New Trial Sought For Buttersworth March 29, 1945
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The Wrtightsville Headlight 3-29-1945 Front Page March 29, 1945
                      New Trial Sought For Buttersworth
 Motion for a new trial for Elmo Buttersworth, under life sentence for murder, 
will be heard by Judge R. Earl Camp on April 28 at 10 o'clock.
 Buttersworth was convicted of the murder of his father-in-law, Hillery Pope, 
by a jury in Johnson Superior Court last week and was immediately sentenced to 
life imprisonment. Attorneys promptly filed a motion for a new trial.
 Pending hearing on the motion, Buttersworth is being held in the Laurens 
County jail. He was removed there because of unsanitary conditions existing in 
the county jail.
 Pope was shot to death with a single-barrel shotgun in the yard of his home 
near Scott.

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