Criminal Justice: Mary Lee Sapp, Annie May Baxter, 1933, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 17, 1933 Winn Parish Enterprise
      August 24, 1933 Winn Parish Enterprise

Article No. 1, 8-17-1933

Negro Woman Is Stabbed To Death Near Atlanta Sun.

Mary Lee Sapp, 23 year-old negro woman was stabbed to death Sunday night about
10 o'clock, as a result of an altercation with Annie May Baxter, negro, 18
years of age.

The women lived in Atlanta, and while on their way home from church at that
place Sunday night, the controversy arose over the Sapp woman's husband.  The
dispute became so heated it is said, that the two women drew their knives, and
that Annie May Baxter stabbed the other woman over the heart causing her death
almost instantly.

Officers hastened to Atlanta and took the Baxter woman into custody and lodged
her in the parish jail.

Article No. 2, 8-24-1933

Negro Woman Is Sentenced To La. Penitentiary Mon.

Annie Mae Baxter, negro woman, who was arrested last week near Atlanta on a
charge of stabbing Mary Lee Sapp, another negro, who died almost instantly,
was arraigned in district court Monday and pleaded guilty to a charge of
manslaughter.

Judge F. E. Jones sentenced her to a term in the state penitentiary for not
less than three nor more than five years.