October 2022 – The Night Marauder Project

The Second Trial

After the mistrial was announced in August, both sides regrouped for to prepare for the second trial. It was decided that Sheffey would be tried again in the very next session of court, in December 1925. On November 28, the Knoxville Journal reported that that Sheffey was still being held in Loudon County for hisContinue reading “The Second Trial”

Closing Statements, Part II

After lunch, the trial resumed. General L. D. Smith of Knoxville spoke for the state. He started by praising the defense team. “No man under our form of government should be deprived of the right to present his side of a lawsuit to a fair and impartial jury.” But he warned them, sympathy for theContinue reading “Closing Statements, Part II”