Newton County GaArchives News.....FORMER WARDEN ACQUITTED THURSDAY November 10 1909
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Phyllis Thompson mandpthompson@bellsouth.net January 17, 2004, 10:13 pm

The Covington News
Mr. J. M. Davis, Charged with Intimacy With Convict, Found Not Guilty.
  Mr. J. M. Davis former warden of the county convict camp, was tried at the
session of the City Court which convened last week, and the verdict of the jury 
was "Not Guilty."
  During the first part of August, Mr. Davis was locked up in a car in which
a negro woman convict was kept and charges were made against him. A true bill
was returned by the grand jury in September charging him with adultery. He 
gave bond and returned last week for trial.
  It developed during the trial that he was discharged the same morning of the
incident and since that time he has been in Tift county where he has held a 
position with the agricultural college at that place. He left immediately after
his acquittal for his present home in that county.
  Mr. Davis is a former resident of this county, and came back here during
the month of March to take charge of the convict camp for this county. He
has always been considered a solid and moral gentleman, and has a large 
number of friends in this city and county who are gratified at the decision
of the jury in exonerating him, contending all the time that he had done
nothing to be censured for.
  In his statement at the trial Mr. Davis gave as his reason for having been
in the car that he was there attending to his duty, as he was trying to catch
someone else who had been in the habit of coming to the camp and meddling
with the convicts.

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