ABE SMITH CASE ON TRIAL.

The case against Abe Smith, a negro, who is charged with being implicated in the killing of Tucker Pinckney near Hempstead several years ago, is on trial in the criminal district court.  A jury has been selected and the hearing of the testimony will be resumed this marning.  The case was brought to Harris county on a change of venue from Waller county on account of the alleged feeling existing there against the negroes accused of the killing.  Pinckney was shot down at a negro church festival.

"ABE SMITH CASE ON TRIAL", The Houston Post., Saturday, January 23, 1909, p. 8, col. 7.

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