- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS2008.01 Lavinia and Tom Morgan Collection
- Contributor to Resource:
- Morgan, Lavinia
Johnson, A. Stephen - Date of Original:
- 2008
2010 - Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Education--Georgia--Troup County
Archives--Collection management--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The most notable part of this collection is information on an appeal made in 1977 by Curfew Davis to reverse his murder conviction. In 1974, Mr. Davis was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. His conviction was appealed on various grounds, one of which was that the jury that convicted him was not drawn from a pool representative of his peers. Mrs. Lavinia Morgan had served on the Troup County Jury Commission, which was responsible for selecting citizens to serve as jurors. As a result of this service, she was subpoenaed to testify and produce evidence in the 1977 appeal. In 1979, the jury pool in Troup County was redrawn to more evenly reflect the population of the county “without regard to race, sex or age, except the age limits of 18 to 65.” Correspondence from notable LaGrange citizens such as First Baptist Church pastor J. Thornton Williams and LaGrange College president Walter Murphy are part of the collection. Other correspondence includes a thank you note to Lavinia Morgan from Ida F.T. Jones and a letter from Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society regarding the life insurance payment upon the death of Marie Utley Morgan. News clippings, and campaign brochures for various Troup County politicians complete the collection.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/983
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:983/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
