Criminal Justice Matters: J. B. Thompson, Pearl Johnson, 1936, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483


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From: February 12, 1936 Winn Parish Enterprise

Self Defense Is Verdict In Negro Homicide Inquiry

Negro Man Dies From Gunshot Wounds Saturday

A verdict of self-defense was returned by a coroner's jury inquiring into the
death of J. B. Thompson, 23 year old negro man at the hands of Pearl Johnson,
negro woman following a shooting scrape in the T & G Quarters about 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 15.

The Johnson woman, the common law wife of Fred Hall, negro, shot Thompson in
the neck with a charge of squirrel shot from a single barreled shotgun when
the latter threw a brick into her house and attempted to force an entrance.

Thompson, an employee of the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company died about an
hour and a half after the shooting.

The Johnson woman was arrested and held until after the self-defense verdict
was handed down Monday afternoon.