Murder in Coweta County

by Margaret Ann Barnes

Overview

This work is a detailed and chillingly realistic reconstruction of the brutal murder of tenant farmer Wilson Turner, which took place in rural Georgia in 1948, and the brilliant investigation that eventually brought the murderer—a powerful county “lord”—to justice with a conviction that set legal precedents. When that county “lord,” John Wallace, crushed Turner’s skull with a sawed-off shotgun, he did not even give a passing thought to being prosecuted by the police in his “feudal kingdom” of Meriwether County. However, Wallace had unknowingly crossed into Coweta County, which was under the jurisdiction of the tenacious Sheriff Lamar Potts. Sheriff Potts emerges from the incident as a classic American lawman, honest and unintimidated, a man of action and integrity determined to see justice done.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455624911
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/11/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Margaret Anne Barnes, author and journalist, was a native of Coweta County and lived in Decatur, Georgia, before her death in 2007. In addition to receiving the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award for Murder in Coweta County, she was named Georgia Author of the Year for her second book, A Buzzard Is My Best Friend.