Pike County GaArchives News.....Garfield Fuller To Be Electrocuted December 23, 1927
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The Pike County Journal December 23, 1927

Garfield Fuller, (colored) alias C.R. (Dad) Davis, was tried last Monday at a 
special term of the Pike Superior court, for the murder of Lillie Belle Davis 
(colored). Davis was found guilty by jury and sentenced to be electrocuted 
January 13, 1928. There was a very large crowd of people on hand to hear the 
trial, much interest being felt in the case on account of the brutal nature of 
the killing. The Davis woman was killed near her home on November 28th while 
traveling a path from her home to the home of her sister. Fuller, who had been 
in the community about two months, disappeared that night. He was traced to 
Barnesville and captured a few miles from that place. The circumstantial 
evidence against him was strong and besides he made a confession to the 
officers that he killed the Davis woman.

His only defense was that he had been an inmate of the Alabama State Insane 
Asylum and at times he was not responsible for his acts. He claims that his 
home is in Alexander City, Ala. He was represented by Cols. R.C. Johnson and 
F.L. Adams by appointment of the court.


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