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...years of crime-which included grand larceny, cattle stealing and blasting an old man with a shotgun and then drowning him in the Mississippi-hefty, hardfisted, 33-year-old Clarence B. ("Hogjaw") Grammar was eminently qualified to be a "shooter." After he began his life term at Parchman in 1940 he demonstrated other good qualities: he beat up fellow prisoners and talked politely to the guards. When he killed a convict who was attacking a prison guard in 1947, the state gratefully released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Shooter's Chance | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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