Criminal Justice Matters: Floyd Lee Drewett Murder, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd, Pensacola, FL  32526
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Source: Winn News American, Feb. 9, 1954
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Floyd Lee Drewett Murder
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Negroes Appeal Death Verdict in Drewett Murder
     Two Alexandria Negroes have announced they will appeal a verdict of
death, imposed when they were tried and found guilty of the murder of
Floyd Lee Drewett recently.
     Floyd Lee Drewett, murdered in a service station which he was
working, was the nephew of W. U. Drewett of Winnfield.
     The two Negroes, Jasper Brazile, and Ruby Johnson, were found
guilty in the Ninth District Court. Judge Walter Hunter delayed the
mandatory death sentence, to permit the defense counsel to prepare an
appeal.
     It was reported that the verdict will be appealed to the Louisiana
Supreme Court, along with a motion for a new trial.
     The District Court previously denied motions for moving the trial
outside Papides parish, and for appointing an additional defense counsel
with five years experience.
(NOTE: Floyd Lee Drewett was the son of Levi Evans Drewett and Willie C.
Ray Drewett. He was born 6 Feb 1903 and died 5 Jan. 1954, and he is
buried in Butler Cemetery, Rapides Parish, La. He was grandson of Tilman
E. Drewett and great grandson of William H. Drewett, Winn Parish Civil
War veteran.)