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Murder in Coweta County is a 1983 television movie produced by Dick Atkins and Michael Lepiner, directed by Gary Nelson, and written by Dennis Nemec based on Barnes' book. Andy Griffith played landowner John Wallace and Johnny Cash played Sheriff Lamar Potts of Coweta County.
The film centres around two main characters, Sheriff Lamar Potts of Coweta County, Georgia, and John Wallace of Meriwether County, Georgia, who rules a vast estate known as "The Kingdom". [ 3 ] Wilson Turner, a poor white tenant sharecropper , was dismissed by Wallace, even though he was given permission to do the liquor run.
John Wallace (bishop) (1654–1733), Scottish Roman Catholic prelate; John Wallace (murderer) (1896–1950), Georgia landowner and crime lord whose murder of a sharecropper is documented in Murder in Coweta County; John Findley Wallace (1852–1921), American engineer best known as the Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1906
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Mayhayley's grave Heard County GA. Mayhayley Lancaster (October 18, 1875 – November 22, 1955) was an American lawyer, political activist, midwife and teacher best known for having participated in two of Georgia's most high-profile murder trials, involving defendants Leo Frank in Marietta and John Wallace in Coweta County.
As a reporter for the Newnan Times-Herald, Barnes became interested in the 1948 case of John Wallace's murder of one of his tenant farmers. This interest led to her book Murder in Coweta County which won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for an outstanding fact-crime study from the Mystery Writers of America.
Newnan was also host to the trial in 1948 of wealthy landowner John Wallace, the first White man in the South to be condemned to death by the testimony of African Americans, two field hands who were made to help with burning the body of murdered white sharecropper Wilson Turner. These events were portrayed in the novel Murder in Coweta County.
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