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...nine leaders of the Albany Movement, a militant civil rights organization fighting a bitterly segregationist city. Three persons were indicted for "obstructing justice," the charge being based upon a boycott they organized against the Carl Smith Grocery. Smith was on the jury that heard a suit brought by Charlie Ware, a Negro, against Sheriff Warren Johnson, alleging Johnson had violated Ware's constitutional rights by shooting him while under arrest. (Ware, of course, lost the case.) The government claimed the boycott was in "retaliation" for Smith's vote. The six other leaders were cited for perjury before the grand jury...
...possible that the defendants are guilty of the alleged offenses (though they claim plans to boycott Smith for discriminatory hiring practices were laid before the Ware trial began). But it is hard to determine any motive for the Justice Department's behavior except hostility to the integration movement or a desire to appease segregationist politicians. In Albany and other segregationist cities the law has become a relative concept, and it is often enforced with appalling disregard for common decency, let alone justice...
...rebuttal, the State put on an FBI agent who said he had taken a statement from Ware on July 6, 1961, while Ware was still in the hospital. In this statement Ware had sworn that he had drunk six cans of beer and had had a few swallows from a pint bottle of whiskey. This, taken in conjunction with a statement made a bare two hours after Ware had been admitted to the hospital on the 5th to an investigator from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation saying he had had only three cans of beer was intended to weaken Ware...
Then the defense put on Robert Lee Daniels, a Negro who had been arrested for "drunken driving" on the Fourth of July and had been in jail during the night when Charlie Ware had been shot. He reported he was awake at the time the shooting occurred and had seen the Sheriff put a knife into Charlie Ware's hand. He then said he saw the Sheriff step back into the shadow of the trees and cry "Hold it," and shoot; again "Hold it," another shot; again, "Hold it," a third shot...
Speaking back indignantly to the prosecutor's question of how he saw any shooting if the Sheriff was standing in the trees, Daniels retorted that you "can see flashes of fire from a slingshot." Also, he saw Charlie Ware twist in pain with each flash from...