Negro Found Guilty, Sentenced to Hang
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483

(From the Winn Parish Enterprise, April 15, 1937)
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Negro Found Guilty, Sentenced to Hang

Term of Criminal Court Ends After Heavy Docket is Disposed Of; 
Judge Jones Presides

Robert Lucas, negro, alias M. Thomas, was found guilty of murder by a jury in
district court last Friday.  He was charged with the murder of a negro woman,
Pearl Johnson, in the Mosley quarters on the night of February 13, 1935. 
After the murder of the woman, Lucas disappeared and was apprehended two years
later in Texarkana, Texas.  He was returned to Winnfield by Sheriff Bryant
Sholars and held for the criminal term of court.  The date of execution will
be set by Governor Richard W. Leche.

The jury which tried Lucas was composed of R. A. Norred, G. W. Brunson, Frank
Carpenter, M. A. Estes, Alon Carpenter, W. E. Higgs, E. V. Teddlie, Wesley
Carter, 
W. H. Gates, C. C. Ferguson, Ira Gates, and John W. Bewett.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)