From: KyArchives [archives@genrecords.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:21 PM
To: Ky-Footsteps
Subject: Retrial.Of.George.Colson.On.May.28.1924.Bell.NEWS


Retrial Of George Colson On May 28 May 14, 1924
Bell County KyArchives News

Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky May 14, 1924
MIDDLESBORO MAN HELD FOR KILLING IRA BALL, HAD CASE REVERSED

Richmond, May 14 - The regular May term of Madison Circuit Court, which 
convened here Monday morning, will have included in it's docket the trial of 
George Colson of Bell County, charged with the murder of Ira Ball of 
Middlesboro in 1922 as an outgrowth of the famous Colson-Ball feud.  

The case was brought here in 1923 on a change of venue from the Bell County 
Circuit Court, and tried before Judge W. R. Shackelford.  The defendant was 
sentenced to seven years in the state reformatory.  The Court of Appeals, 
however, ordered that a new trial be had on the ground that new evidence had 
turned up since the trial.  The case will be tried on the 19th day of the May 
term, which is Wednesday, May 28th.  It is expected that it will take several 
days to try the case.



Submitted by: Pat Akers Lacy
eplacy@worldnet.att.net



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