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Young Wharton
Found Not Guilty
John Wharton stood trial irt, Rappahannock County Circuit Court on Thursday, January 22, , 1959, for the fatal shooting of Wa ' father Mason Wharton at their home hear Castleton, Virginia on ' July* 1958. The accused was represented by attorney James W. Fletcher and the prosecuting attorney was John W. Price.
Wharton, sixteen years of age, pleaded not guilty and after hearing witnesses attest that it was a case of self-defense, the jury after deliberat’Tg only ter. minutes, brought forth a verdict of justifiable homicide. .. J>:dge Rayne- V". Snead heard the ~tse and jurymen were James E. vates, Foreman; L. H. Luttrell, Byrd F. Updike, Clifton W kley, Eddie J. Hitt, Brown E. Compton, J. L. Yowell, James Lester Burke, Nelson Atkins, Edward Clark, Gordon Thornhill and G lbe.ttA. Burke?'. ,
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