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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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NAACP lawyers appealed the first-degree murder conviction of Mrs. Ingram and her sons in Americus, arguing self-defense and lack of evidence. Judge Harper denied a new trial but commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment after a February 27 trial.
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The lawyers contended that no evidence to sustain the conviction was offered by the state at the trial. The Ingrams admitted the killing as an act of self-defense.
Mrs. Ingram and her two sons were convicted of first-degree murder by an all-white jury in a one-day trial in Americus on February 27. A stay of execution was granted and NAACP lawyers argued a motion for a new trial before Judge Harper on March 25. He denied the motion but vacated his former sentence of death and handed down sentence of life imprisonment.
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Americus
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February 27 To March 25
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NAACP lawyers T. Walden and Edward R. Dudley contended that no evidence supported the conviction of Mrs. Ingram and her two sons for first-degree murder, admitted as self-defense. An all-white jury convicted them in a one-day trial on February 27. On March 25, Judge Harper denied a new trial but vacated the death sentence and imposed life imprisonment.