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...note: this is the second of three articles by a second year student at Harvard Law School on the strange trial of Charlie Ware in Baker County, Ga. Ware, a Negro, was charged with deadly assault on the Sheriff. His lawyers, C. E. King and Donald Hollowell, attempted to prove the charge was a phony one intended to excuse the Sheriff for having shot Ware four times in cold blood...
Then the defense called five Negroes who testified to Charlie's conduct at the ballpark on Ichauway Plantation. All agreed that Charlie Ware was not drunk. They said he had grabbed Coke Malone's arm to keep him from entering the spat between his mother and Bud Walker. The witnesses further agreed that Charlie left when Touchstone's man told the people to leave, and that Charlie did not curse at Touchstone...
Although the Sherif had asserted that Ware, in the hasty trip to Camilla hospital, had been slumped over, Minter had him sitting up straight. When asked to demonstrate how Ware, from an erect position, could bite the Sheriff, Minter leaned stiffly to the left and with a quick jerk of his head took a chomp...
When asked by Atty. Hollowell: "You never did care what happened to Charlie Ware then and you don't now, isn't that right?" Minter emphatically replied "That's right...
Finally, Dr. Williams, the physician who had removed a bullet from Ware at the hospital, was called. The State had attempted to prove that Ware was still crazy drunk when he allegedly assaulted the Sheriff, but the doctor first said that Ware's condition might have been caused by the truama of being shot at least three times. Nervous and blinking rapidly, Williams was forced by the State to read from a chart stating Ware was drunk when admitted...