Pike-Coweta County GaArchives News.....Once To Hang; Now Pardoned. January 18 1901
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net October 18, 2003, 11:04 pm

The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia

F.W. Quick Who Killed a Man Eleven Years Ago Now Free

Governor Candler Saturday upon recommendation of the pardon board, issued 
several pardons and commutations of sentence.

The most important is that of F.W. Quick, who was convicted at the fall term 
1891, of the superior court of Pike county and sentenced to hang, which 
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and whose sentence was commuted to 
eleven years, which will have the effect of an immediate pardon.

When convicted and sentenced to be hanged, the judge who presided at his trial 
urged the governor to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment, which 
was done. He now, in connection with the solicitor general who prosecuted the 
defendant, urges further clemency, upon the ground that under the circumstances 
of the case, if guilty, defendant acted upon the impulse under great 
provocation.

(Transcribed 10/10/03 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
F.W. Quick was born 19 May 1865 and died 27 Feb 1922. He is buried in Coweta 
County. He was convicted of murdering George Lafayette [Shivers] Coggin in 
1891. F.W.’s sister, Nettie Cora Quick, was married to King David Huckaby in 
1892.

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