Only a few spectators were on hand in the slave-built courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., when two by now famed cases involving the shooting and murder of civil rights workers came to trial last week. From their relaxed air it was plain that few in Hayneville expected any convictions.
First defendant was Thomas Coleman, 56, a pudgy former highway department employee, who had already been acquitted of the shotgun slaying of Episcopal Seminarian Jonathan Daniels, and was subsequently charged with wounding Daniels' companion, Roman Catholic Priest Richard Morrisroe. Though the priest had been...
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