City Alderman Guns Down Former Sheriff in 1870’s Mobile: THE HOMICIDE CASE & THE FATAL AFFRAY
A most curious case of municipal drama unfolded in the downtown old Alderman Chambers of the City of Mobile. Chalk it up to an early stand your ground holding, but the case involved a quarrel between two men of public service. Rewind to the year 1870 Reconstruction Mobile. You hear many folks today say that people these days are too quick on the draw and that quarrels in the old days were handled by fisticuffs instead of pistols; that in today’s society we are much more dispo
