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By the mid-1800s it became common for courthouses to still be made of wood, but out of wood that had been processed into boards instead of unhewed logs. The Old Marion County Courthouse in Tazewell, Georgia and the Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse are only two surviving wooden courthouses in Georgia. Neither are currently in use as a courthouse.
Doraville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, approved December 15, 1871. [5] From its development until the 1940s, Doraville was a small agricultural community that served the interests of a larger surrounding farming area. At the end of World War II, Doraville was on a main railroad line and had a new water system.
After the news came out about the attack on Grice, Grant Smith, a black preacher at a local Cumming church, was heard to suggest that the victim was a "sorry white woman". [4] Outraged whites horse-whipped the preacher until law officers rescued him and took him inside the courthouse.
Death notices are provided to The News Tribune once per month by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
After his 3-year-old daughter was murdered by her mother's boyfriend, a grieving father was caught on camera attacking the man convicted of killing his little girl.
In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County.
Georgia v. Smith was a court case held in 2007 resulting in the conviction of Joseph and Sonya Smith for child abuse and murder following the death of one of their sons, Josef Smith, from "acute and chronic" corporal punishment .
First female (Georgia Court of Appeals): Dorothy Beasley (1969) in 1984 [16] First female (temporary judge; Georgia Supreme Court): Dorothy Robinson in 1985 [13] [14] First African American female (superior court): Leah Ward Sears (1980) in 1988 [17] First African American female (Chief Presiding Judge of a Georgia court): Glenda Hatchett (1977 ...