Carbine Williams Page #3

Say it, don't make it show.

What's the matter?

Don't turn around, someone's

back there, behind you.

You go first.

Don't move Williams!

Get your hands up, all of you.

Destroy the Distill, Tom.

Don't come no close, This

boiler here is private property.

You are under arrest Williams

for violating the 18th amendment.

Williams!

This is your last warning.

Call your men off! and come out with your

hands up! We will take you alive or dead.

Its up to you.

All men, for themselves!

Who's there?. Maggie...

I might have shot you.

There's been enough

shooting for one day!

- You heard about the raid?

- Yeah!

Anybody see you come?

Who else would have known?

About this place, Marsh!

we came here, whenever

you are in trouble.

Gee! I was hoping

that You will remember.

There is nothing about us

that I can ever forget Marsh!

You shouldn't have runaway, Marsh.

And spend 3 to 6 weeks in jail? Not me, I am

heading for woods, till this thing blows over.

- Didn't you hear?

- Didn't I hear what?

That federal agent Rimmer, He is dead!

Oh, no.

Put this on, you will catch cold.

Here.

- What's this money for?

- From your father, he asked me to bring it to you.

- He isn't against me?

- He is for you, Marsh!

He and your Mom think that you ought

to get out of the country right away.

What do you think?

Well, what I think isn't important Marsh.

The important thing is what you feel!

The whole world never looks so good, things never

seem so brighter as when you are in bad trouble.

If you give yourself up, Marsh,

I will stand by you, always.

You think Pops wrong?

I think a man must face up to his.

Alright. I will turn myself in.

- Is that a promise?

- Yeah! It's a promise.

I will tell you when too.

Now, you go on home and tell

my dad to get the sheriff.

And meet me behind the Godwin

depot at 11'o clock tonight.

And I will be there.

Oh, Marsh!

...Present as follows

David Marshall Williams,

Did unlawfully, willfully, feloniously,

Killed and murdered

Jesse Rimmer, Age 43,

While the later was perusing his

duty as a Federal revenue agent.

As I remember it was a local

deputy A man named Vennar,

Who gave the most damaging testimony, when he

told, that night in front Frank Gregory house.

'Williams came over and warned us. '

"Any deputy ever steps on my property

is looking for trouble," he said

"He is going to find it. "

- And when was the next

time you saw the defendant?

July 23, The day he killed Jesse Rimmer.

I Object!

Carson wasn't a very

good witness to your dad.

I am sure he didn't

mean to hurt him, But...

The steam, the smoke in the

still was so thick I couldn't see!

You couldn't see the defendant.

He could have killed Rimmer

without your knowledge?

I don't know! I guess so.

All of us were shooting.

Tell me Mr. Carson, of the six men

who were operating on the still...

Who was the best shot?

Everybody knows Marsh is the best!

Before he realized poor Carson has

become the witness for the state.

I always thought that your Dad could

have put a better case for himself!

He didn't imagine that there was

any chance of being convicted.

You knew you were violating

The 18th amendment! Didn't you?

I never considered the

18th amendment A law!

I look around the room and

I see I ain't the only one.

You are on trial here

Williams, Not prohibition.

Now you heard your own

friends, your own men.

Carson, Stockton, Markley

and all the others,

Practically accuse you of murder. now

what have you got to say about that?

It will be just as easy for me to turn

around and say that one of them is guilty.

You recognize this Williams?

- Sure! That's mine! That's my first gun.

- Where did you get it?

I made it! Curved it

out of Jennifer wood.

Barrel was made out of

reed and sawn through it.

- Bullet was a buckshot.

- Very ingenious.

- And it actually worked?

- Killed the first sparrow with it.

How old were you at the time?

Oh, I was eleven. No! Ten years old.

- I Object

- Objection sustained.

Now getting back to this day July 23rd.

You heard Vennar testify

that he saw you kill Rimmer.

With all that shooting going on

I can't see how anyone can be sure of what

gun any of the bullets was being fired from?

- You were the best shot there.

- Oh, I don't know about that.

I remember you and me

went hunting last spring

You got 8 birds I didn't even hit one!

You are not here to decide whether whiskey

making or drinking should be legalized.

If you were, I would be arguing

against the 18th amendment.

You are to decide whether murder

should be legalized in North Carolina.

There is only one penalty

for murder:
The Death penalty!

You have no alternative but

to find David Marshall Williams

Guilty of murder; In the first degree.

By the time the case ended. The jury

was as confused as everybody else.

After 4 days of deliberations...

Gentlemen of the Jury!

Have you reached a decision?

Your Honor! The Jury is

hopelessly deadlocked!

What's going on, Andrew?

I don't know yet! We might be able

to work something out. Come on!

Marsh, Maggie, Come on!

We can't have a 2nd trial.

This gotta be settled somehow.

You know that a 2nd trial will be a

costly drain on the taxpayer's money.

The state will be satisfied with a plea of

guilty to a reduced charge of 2nd degree murder.

No! Nothing was ever said in that

court to prove that Marsh was guilty.

We want a second trial.

We must be realistic, Claude.

Marsh did threaded Rimmer and an

eyewitness swore, that he did the shooting.

I could shake either story.

- They couldn't prove them either.

- They might in the retrial.

No two juries are alike.

At least second degree eliminates

the possibility of electric chair.

Where are we going to get the

money to pay for the 2nd trial?

I am selling the piece of the land.

How stiff a sentence will

I get on second degree?

15 years and with good behavior...

You are taking orders from me, Andrew.

Marsh! Don't let Dad suffer for you

again Let him do what he wants...

It is only land, you

can always pay back,

In your way, we all be paying for years.

Mind that. My decision too.

Over your Grand Fathers protest your

Dad pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder.

And Judge Kerr set sentence for

the following Monday at 10.00 a. m.

United States District Court for

the North Carolina is now in session.

Judge Henry P. Lane. presiding.

What's going on? Where is Judge Kerr?

I just found out Lane is taking

his place for this session

- Why?

- No special reason.

Federal Judges rotate assignments.

I understand the defendant has made an

amended plea to the murder of 2nd degree!

The state has withdrawn its

motion for retrial! Is that agreed?

Yes, Your Honor!

Defendant?

Your honor! My client

requests a postponement.

I am ready for sentence Your Honor!

Defendant step forward please.

In accordance with the law of

the state of North Carolina.

I sentence you David Marshall

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