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The Case of the Misidentified Husband

Record #:
11936
Abstract:
An excerpt of S. T. Pearce's \"Zeb's Black Baby,\" a history of Vance County is reprinted in this article detailing the court trial of a misidentified husband. Arrested for bigamy and nonsupport of his children in 1923, John Bunyan Rawls was mistakenly identified as J. Bynum Reid and escaped conviction by the Vance County jury only narrowly.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 26 Issue 3, July 1958, p12, 36