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Alma's Story
From the outset, Alma claimed that she had not murdered her father. So as the authorities went through their lives, the entire story was pardous word against Alma's. When Alma's grandfather and Smith-Pettys father, John Petty made his way to the jail from Union South Carolina,. He told Alma that he believed she had killed Smith but that she must have had an accomplice. She denied all of it. On January 24th, a grand jury determined that there was enough probable cause for the case to move forward to a trial. Alma's trial proceedings began on February 13th, 1928. And after two days of jury selection, testimony began. In her testimony, Alma stated