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- Title: Ex Rel. Preston Cobb v. R. P. Balkcom
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
- Release Date : January 03, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Appellant Cobb, having been indicted for murder, was tried and convicted without a recommendation of mercy in the Superior Court of Jasper County, Georgia, on August 16, 1961. Consequently, he was sentenced, on the same day, to death by electrocution.Cobb, a Negro, was the sixth of nine children, and lived with his mother on the victims farm where both were employed. His father was deceased. He was fifteen years of age at the time of his trial and sentence.