| Summary: | James 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; 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. This image was published in the Birmingham News on July 24, 1951, with the following caption: "A mother listens - Mrs. Aubrey Kilpatrick, widow of one of the slain men and mother of one of the defendants, listens intently with some of her other children in the courtroom in Albertville yesterday during questioning of jurors who will hold the fate of her son, Jimmy Kilpatrick."
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