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Preston Cobb
Pleads Guilty;
Gets 18 Years
EATONTON, Ga. (UPI) —
Young Negro Preston Cobb,
who faced the possibility of
death in the electric chair from
his 16th to his 20lh year, has
pleaded guilty and been sen
tenced to 18 years in prison.
Ocmulgee Circuit Sol. Gen.
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Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1968
George D. Lawrence said today
that Cobb entered the plea of
guilty to voluntary manslaugh
ter before Judge Jack W. Bal
lenger on Monday.
Cobb, who was sentenced to
death in 1961 when he was 15'/2
years old, aroused the sympa
thy of many Individuals and or
ganizations over the country.
Protests at the idea of execut
ing someone so young, and a
long series of court appeals, re
sulted in a new trial in 1965.
The guilty verdict and sentence
of life imprisonment were re
versed by the U. S. Supreme
Court.
Cobb, a member of a large
tenant farm family, was con
victed of shooting Prank Cole
man Dumas, 70. The Cobb fam
ily lived on the Dumas farm.
Judge Ballenger sentenced
Cobb, now 22, to 18 years in
prison. He will be eligible for
parole after six years, Law
rence said, but the time he has
already spent in prison will not
count toward parole.
Lawrence said the state de
cided to accept Cobb’s offer of
a guilty plea because of the
stress of the case on the Du
mas family, the expected high
cost of a third trial, scheduled
Social Circle
Dispute Heads
For US Court
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (UPI)
—Negroes protesting school
conditions headed for court to
day after a week In the streets.
They planned to ask a federal
court at Macon to reinstate
three teachers fired after pro
testing conditions at the all-Ne
gro Social Circle Training
School — Ann Nesbitt, Allie
Norris and Lillian Hill. Miss
Nesbitt Is White.
Reinstatement of the teachers
was one of tht goals of demon
strators who gathered at the
school several days last week,
throwing themselves Into the
street when school buses ap
proached. Dozens were arrested
and there were several Injuries.
Negroes agreed Tuesday to
call off demonstrations pending
the court hearing and school of
ficials in return dropped plans
to arrest about 30 Negro parents
who kept their children out of
school.
The parents also demanded
the firing of school principal
C. C. Carr and asked the school
board to hire more substitute
teachers to end the practice of
in Jasper County In August, and
the belief that the courts would
not support a death sentence if
the third trial should result in
the capital penalty.
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having students conduct classes
when teachers were absent.
They also protested that the
school cafeteria was unsanitary
and that students had to wash
dishes.
Willie Bolden of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confertnce
(SCLC), one of the leaders of
the demonstrations, charged
that Carr should he dismissed
for "over-incompetence.”
The teachers charged that
they wtre dismissed for siding
with the parents during the con
troversy.
FLEET BUILDUP
ALEXANDRIA, U.A.R. (UPI)
—A rocket-armed Soviet de
stroyer Joined three other
destroyers and a repair ship In
the Mediterranean Friday. The
Soviet Union began building up
its fleet In the area since after
the June Mideast War.
APOLOGY ALLEGED
MOSCOW (UPl)—The officers
and men of the USS Pueblo
signed a Joint apology to the
North Korean government, the
Soviet news agency Tass said
from Pyongyang today. North
Korea seized the ship and said
she was in North Korean
territorial waters.
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