People v. Black

James L. Black, plaintiff in error, and Lat V. Sanford, were indicted in the circuit court of Randolph county charged with the murder on June 22, 1922, of Alex Bokor. • Upon a trial a verdict was returned finding the plaintiff in error guilty of manslaughter and finding Sanford not guilty. The plaintiff in error was sentenced on the verdict.

Alex Bokor was a miner living in a one-story four-room cottage at Coulterville with Judith Marte, a married woman separated from her husband and who lived with Bokor under an assumed relation as husband and wife. Bokor and the woman were engaged in the…