- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- Woolfolk Murder Case
- Creator:
- Wilkes, Donald E., Jr.
- Date of Original:
- 2009-12-18
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
University of Georgia--Faculty - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Article appearing online in The New Georgia Encyclopedia
The most infamous crime in nineteenth-century Georgia occurred in Bibb County, about twelve miles west of Macon, in the early morning hours of August 6, 1887, when Tom Woolfolk (pronounced WUHL-fork) murdered nine members of his family with an ax.
Criminal Law -- Legal - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/511
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
-
