People in Florida's Lake County were still sore about those two colored boys, Sam Shepherd and his buddy Walter Irvin. Two years ago, a 17-year-old white housewife swore that they and two other Negroes had kidnaped her and raped her in the back seat of their Mercury. A Lake County jury at Tavares had convicted them, and they were sentenced to the electric chair. But lawyers hired by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. This spring the Supreme Court had reversed the Lake County court and ordered a new trial, because only...
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