Pike County GaArchives News.....Jim Crawley Gets Life Sentence; Redge CrawleyAnd Stiles Mitchell Freed  April 14 1911
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Griffin Daily News and Sun
Jim Crawley Gets Life Sentence; Redge Crawley
And Stiles Mitchell Freed

One of the Most Celebrated Murder Cases in Pike County
Ends --- Jury Out Only Short Time.

In the case of the State versus J.M. Crawley, O. R. Crawley and Stiles E 
Mitchell, Charged with the murder of Former Marshall William Carden, of 
Milner, in Pike 
Superior Court at Zebulon, the jury returned a verdict yesterday afternoon of 
not guilty in the case of Redge Crawley and Mitchell and of guilty in the case 
of Jim Crawley, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court, acting on 
which Judge Daniel imposed a sentence of penal servitude for life on the 
latter and allowed Redge
Crawley and Mitchell to go free.  The jury was out only a few hours.
  The case was one of the most celebrated in Pike county since the famous 
murder trial of the Delks for the killing of Sheriff Gwynne and attracted 
attention throughout the State.  The old man Carden was killed in the public 
road between Orchard Hill and Milner in Pike county last October as he was on 
his way to Milner to attend a Masonic meeting.  The Crawleys and Mitchell were 
arrested several days later, charged with the killing.  In the trial the 
Crawleys sought to prove a plea of self-defense and it was attempted to show 
that they had been threatened by Carden on many occasions.  It will be 
remembered that Carden killed a brother of the Crawleys while marshal of 
Milner and ill feeling and bad blood existed.  There were eighty-five 
witnesses who testified in the trial and the case was stubbornly fought by 
both defense and the State.  The State was ably represented in the trial by 
Solicitor J.W. Wise, Lloyd Cleveland and Lucien Goodrich, while the defense 
was equally ably represented by E.F. Dupree, T.E. Patterson, J.F. Redding and 
E.M. Owen.  The trial consumed the entire time of court from Monday morning 
until Thursday afternoon.

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