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Emmett Till — Part 1

249 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Emmett Till · 245 pages OCR'd
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Tondinwalion of FPD-32 of TRANSCRIPT - EMMETT “TILL TRIAL S ept 1955 .On 21-3620 Rey 1-954 44A-JN-30112, 62D-JN-306045-FD3202 . Page STATE OF MISSTSSIPPIT } } In the Circuit Court TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY } SEPTEMBER TERM, 1955 | ‘ STATE GF MISSISSIPPI } VS. : No. J. H. MILAM and ROY BRYANT | Indictment: Murder PROCEEDINGS = This day this cause came on to be heard, on this the 19th day of September, A. D. 1955. Comes the District Attorney, came also the defendants, each of them in his ‘own proper person and represented by counsel and announced Yeady to proceed herein. Whereupon, came a jury selected from the regular panels of the week and a special venire from chis County, composed of J. A. Shaw, Jr., Ed Duvaney, Bishop Matthews, L. L. Price,. Howard Armstrong, Ray Tribble, Davis Newton, James Toole, George Holland, Travis Thomas, Gus Ramsey and Jim Pennington, all good and lawful. men, being specially sworn to try the issue. . Thereupon the Cause proceeded. to trial before the Judge aforesaid, and the’ Jury aforesaid, when and where the following proceedings were had, as follows:
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