| Summary: | Kilpatrick had been charged with the murder of Boaz police chief Leonard J. Floyd, who had been killed in a shoot-out on May 17; Tom Upton and Fred Goble were also charged in connection with the event, during which three other men (Sheriff E. M. Boyes, Chief Deputy Washington Bennett, and Kilpatrick's father, Aubrey) were also killed. A cropped version of this image was published in the Birmingham News on July 24, 1951, with the following caption: "Presiding judge - Circuit Judge J. S. Stone is shown in the Circuit Courtroom in Albertville yesterday as the trial of the first three persons charged with murder got underway."
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