Talbot County GaArchives News.....Talbot County Man Gets Death Sentence September 17, 1925
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The Butler Herald September 17, 1925
Verdict Reached Friday Night In Case Of R. G. Currington Who Went On Trial 
Thrusday

Columbus, Spet 12- On conviction of the murder of his brother H.H. Currington, 
at Junction City on Sunday April 15, 1925 by a Talbot county jury at Talbotton 
Friday night, without recommendation, R. G. Currington wasa sentenced by Judge 
C. F. McLaughlin Saturday morning to be electrocuted on October 16. The 
verdict was found at about 9:30 after the jury had been out for three or four 
hours.
John H. McGehee, attorney for the defendant, immediately gave notice that a 
motion for a new trial would be filed and the motion will be heard before 
Judge McLaughlin probably within about a month as soon as the record in the 
case is prepared. The prosecution was conducted by Solicitor General Walker R, 
Flournoy.
The defendant appeared unmoved by the verdict, though his wife, who sat with 
him in the court room was overcome. He had maintained that he killed his 
brother in self defense, while both were drinking and following a disagreement 
over money left by their mother at her death.
The eye witnesses to the tragedy who testified were Henry Currington nine year 
old son of the deceased and Grady Hesters, a neighbor boy. The son testified 
that the defendant came to his house first with a knife with which he 
threatened his father and which the latter took from him ordering him to go 
home; that he left but came back and on calling to his father shot him down as 
he was in the act of turning around. Testimony of the Hesters boy was in 
corroboration with that of the young son as to the actual shootin, he having 
witnessed it from his father's wood pile about 200 yards away. 
Dr. Ragan testified concerning the finding of the body and the condition of 
the wound that was made by a pistol ball. Others, including the wife of the 
deceased, testified concerning the finding of an axe near the scene but 
testimony of some of the witnesses was to the effect that the axe had 
apparently not been used for sometime, nor moved from the place where it was 
found since a rain the preceding night.
The defendant, in his statement made to the jury maintained that his brother 
was advancing on him with an axe at the time he was forced to shoot him. He 
expressed deep sorrow and regretfulness over the affair.

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