Jackson v. Richardson

In July, 1902, Gr. J. Owen, a farmer about fifty-three years old, and a citizen of Randolph County, was convicted and sentenced to a term of twenty years in the penitentiary for the murder of his son-in-law, Henry Hall. The killing was alleged to have occurred February 18, 1902. Just prior to Owen’s imprisonment he constituted 'Schoonover & Brown his attorneys in fact to rent his lands and collect the rents amounting to approximately $1,000 a year. He escaped from prison after having served about a year, and after his escape he would at intervals meet one of his attorneys and his tenant, J.…