Judge Ernest Lacy at the bench during the trial of Dr. Reuben Barnes at the Marion County courthouse in Hamilton, Alabama.
Barnes was accused of hiring his former employee, Brad Byars, to kill his wife in March 1938. While Byars was sentenced to life in prison for the murder, Barnes, who had been bedridden for ten years, was ultimately acquitted. This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on November 15, 1938,...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/130314 |
