Year For Killing Negro

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Birmingham News
Place of publication: Birmingham, Alabama
Date of publication: 6/17/1926 0:00
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Transcript:

TUSCALOOSA, Ala., June 17- Daniel Hays was found guilty of manslaughter in Circuit Court. He shot Felix Thomas, negro, at Fleetwood. His sentence was fixed at a year and a day in the penitentiary. Hays had been charged with second degree murder. The shooting followed a dispute over a job several months ago.