Treutlen County GaArchives News.....Trial of Mrs. Foskey For Shooting Her Husband Is In Progress May 7, 1954
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The Aiken Standard Review May 7, 1954
           Trial of Mrs. Foskey For Shooting Her Husband Is In Progress
 Dressed in a sheer white nylon dress with red dots, complimented with a red 
flower and red shoes, Mrs. Pauline Foskey sat almost motionless between her 
attorneys, John Williams and John Henry Williams, as she was being tried for 
the murder of her husband yesterday.
 Small of stature, with short brown hair, Mrs. Foskey listened intently as the 
witnesses gave their testimony and were cross-examined by the state.
 Mrs. Foskey is charged with shooting her husband, Alvin Foskey, on Sunday 
morning April 4th after he allegedly been out all night and had come home 
drinking and started a fuss and fight. An uncle, Marvin Wheeler, who lived 
next door to the Foskey home in Gloverville and who went to Mrs. Foskey's 
help, was reportedly attacked by Foskey. It was at this point that Mrs. Foskey 
is said to have gone into the house and got the psitol and shot her husband 
twice in the back.
 The first thre witnesses were Officers W. W. McTeer and W. C. Creed, and the 
examining physician Dr. A. A. Walden.
 Creed gave the testimony as given him by Mrs. Foskey saying " I ran into the 
house when my husband was wrestling in the yard with my uncle. I got a 22-
caliber pistol and shot my husband."
 After Solicitor Leonard A. Williamson had asked Creed to reaffirm the above 
statement, John Williams made a motion that the court grant a directed verdict 
since the state had made a case of self-defense, showing that Wheeler was 
unable to defend himself and so his niece acted in his behalf. The motion was 
overruled.
                                         Mrs. Wheeler Testifies
 Mrs. Willie Wheeler, an aunt of the defendant, was next on the stand and her 
testimony.......

Additional Comments:
Alvin Foskey was born 3-26-1920 to George Henry Foskey and Leah Hutcheson 
Foskey.

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