MISSISSIPPI: Not Guilty

After the body of Leon McAtee, a Negro tenant farmer, was found floating in a bayou one day last July, five white men were charged with his murder (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, at Lexington, their trial was held. The judge freed two; the jury took four minutes to acquit the others.

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