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Without Fear Or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton And The Trial Of The 'Scottsboro Boys', Douglas O. Linder
Without Fear Or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton And The Trial Of The 'Scottsboro Boys', Douglas O. Linder
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One evening, Circuit Judge James Horton, Jr. was having dinner with his family in his antebellum home in central Athens, Alabama; Limestone's county seat. Dinners in the Horton household were an opportunity to discuss events of the day. In early March of 1933, there were plenty of events to discuss. The ringing of their party line phone interrupted the Horton family dinner. The judge excused himself from the table. When he returned a few minutes later, he looked grim. The retrial of the Scottsboro Boys had been transferred to Decatur in neighboring Morgan County. He was to be the presiding …