Criminal Justice Matters: Mattie Lee Boyd, 1951, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 21 & June 28, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise

Article No. 1

Negro Girl Held In Slaying of Her Step-Father

Mattie Lee Boyd, 16 year old Winnfield Negro girl, is in jail with murder
charges pending, in connection with the knife slaying of her step-father,
Steve Davis, about 86, late Wednesday afternoon, according to the Sheriff's
Department.

Davis died last night in the Winnfield General Hospital of a single stab wound
in the chest, which caused internal hemorrhage, according to Dr. G. M.
Rodgers.  He was brought to the hospital between 7:30 and 8 p.m. in a very
weak condition.  Dr. Rodgers stated that he must have been stabbed earlier in
the afternoon perhaps 5:30.

Information was limited Thursday morning, as hospital officials and city law
officers, who arrested the Boyd girl, reported that neither the girl nor her
family would talk about it.

Town Marshal Gamble Carter said the girl reported that her mother and brother
were present at the time of the stabbing which occurred in the New L. & A.
colored addition.  Marshall Carter said he was called by hospital attendants,
and arrested the Boyd girl between 11 p. m. and midnight Wednesday.

The case was turned over to the Parish Sheriff's Department Thursday morning
for further investigation and prosecution.


Article No. 2

Winnfield Negro Girl Charged With Murder

Mattie Lee Boyd, 16 year old Winnfield Negro girl, who was arrested last week
in connection with the stabbing of her stepfather, Steve Davis, 86, ws charged
with murder this week following a coroner's inquest last Friday.

It is charged that she killed Davis by stabbing him in the neck last Wednesday
afternoon.  Davis died Wednesday night in General Hospital of a single wound.

The dead man was a property owner in the new L & A colored quarters.  The girl
is being held in jail without bond pending the Fall grand jury term this
September.

This will make two murder cases before the grand jury when it meets again. 
The other is Alonso Sapp, Atlanta Negro, charged with the shotgun slaying of
his wife, Maggie Sapp.