Ben Montgomery
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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And so he's once again loaded up, not into a carriage this time, but into a train and sent to Louisville, which is the biggest city in Kentucky at the time and probably offers the most protection.
Because the only people there who could testify to what had happened...
were men who had armed themselves, disguised their faces, muffled their voices, and shown up on the front porch of a black man that they were trying to threaten.
So to testify to what had happened, these men had to go public.
They had to say, I was there.
I was involved.
It almost sounds rehearsed.
If you read the transcript, it's like they used the same language to describe what they were doing.
Their story was they assembled in the evening because they were concerned about some stealing that had been going on in the neighborhood.
They all claimed that when they got to Denning's, they were ambushed.
that they were there peacefully trying to coax him outside so they might have a civilized conversation with him, and he fired on them from an upstairs window.
And their story was that they did not fire or return fire until they were fired upon.
People were paying attention outside of this small town, Franklin, Kentucky.
They were paying attention because this case dealt with some fundamental civil rights issues.
Could a man...
protect himself with deadly force inside of his own home if he was attacked?
Question one, everyone answers yes, you know, across the board.
Question two, could a black man protect himself using deadly force in his own home when he's under attack?
And they decided that he was not guilty of murder, the charge that he was indicted on, but that he was guilty of manslaughter and that he should be sentenced to seven years of hard labor at the Eddyville State Penitentiary.
And that was that.
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