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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) WA VMe UL i y JKNE ALDRIDGE fe uvert Hill, 20-year-old Negro} who recently was sentenced to dl seven months in County Jail in: connection with a rock-throwi ing incident here which left a white xoutn seriously injured, has been iced on two-year probation: eThe probation order was sign- ed by Circuit Judge Alta L. King on the recommendation of; Solicitor Emmett Perry and Deputy Sol. Rufus Elliott. Sliott, had handled prelimin- y phases of the case and help- ! work out the earlier agree- ment for Hill to plead guilty to ihe rock assault and receive the; seven-month sentence. iain already has spent approx- imately eight months in the County Jail here while awaiting trial and then pending disposi- tion of his request for probation. In recommending Probation’ for him, Solicitor Perry called} attention to the fact that the man already has been confined in jail the length of the sentence and he added that the probution| supervisor, George Raley, who, will oversee Hill's probution, had studied his situation snd termed him a good subject for proba- tion. peer Sey ' Happened Sept. 15 The incident happened last) Sept. 15, the same day the Six-j teenth Street Baptist Church! here was bombed, killing four] young Negro girls. Also on that day two white youths shot and Killed a young Negro buy. - Victim of Hill’s rock was Dennis Robertson, 16, of 2407 2ist-av,n, who was knocked from: a motor scooter and dragged a: considerable distance by the yeh- icle. He had been on his way home from Farmer's Market, where he worked, when the rock was thrown ag he passed Hjjl's holise. kof Robertson had concurred in! fied him as the man who threw Attn (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Equals Earller Penalty .-. . even: “month Inilaeptance and the two-year’ ‘probation term, duplicates the penalty_ Ineted. jthere™ earlier” tothe’ WO" “white youths who ‘had ‘been | charged! in the slaying of the Negro boy.. Hill was represented in the' case by Atty. James G. Adams; ar. “It was “understood that investi-, gating officers and the parents: the sentence and in the granting of probation. e originally had been: charged with assault with intent! io murder but entered the guilty: plea to the reduced charge of! assault and battery. At his preliminary hearing in County Criminal Court he stout- ly denied that he had thrown the rock but other witnesses identi- 1a | SERIALIZED. #cPILED £22. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NEW, 1i THE BIRMINGHAM PTDATNH BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Date: 4-21-64 Edition: Fil AL : Author: Jane Aldridge edito: James L. Mills Tithe: Vie 30MB Character: RM or Classification: BIRMINGHAM Submitting Office: Heing Investigated - 7 1964 FR) —- SIRMINGH —7