Grand Jury Records On 1946 Georgia Lynching Once Again Before Court

A federal appeals court plans to rehear arguments on unsealing the transcripts from grand jury proceedings in the unsolved lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said Tuesday that a majority of its judges voted to rehear the case involving the brazen killing of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey. The four were riding in a car when a white mob stopped them at Moore’s Ford Bridge in July 1946.

The mob pulled the four sharecroppers from the car and shot them multiple times along the banks of the Apalachee River in rural Walton County, just over 50 miles east of Atlanta.