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Criminal justice, Administration of

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85034049

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0055
Abstract

A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.

Dates: 1815-1835

Alabama Circuit Court, 23rd District, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0056
Abstract

Primarily records of suits for debt, arranged chronologically, by circuit court and county court, including judge's dockets.

Dates: 1809-1926

Alabama Prison System papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0048
Abstract

This collection contains items that pertain to the Alabama Board of Corrections.

Dates: circa 1974-1982

Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract

Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Dates: 1873

Bootlegging Court records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0188
Abstract

One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.

Dates: 1871-1881

Collection on the Murder of Father Coyle

 Collection
Identifier: W-0094
Abstract

Contains an affidavit, newspaper clipping and the research notes compiled by lawyer John C. Morrow related to the 1921 murder of Birmingham priest Father James Coyle and the subsequent trial of Edwin Stephenson.

Dates: 1921