Martin P. Asbill pleads guilty of manslaughter, Los Angeles, 1935

Description: Martin Asbill is photographed standing slightly elevated above the photographer. He looks off to the side out of the corner of his eye. Another man, possibly his attorney, stands beside him looking at a stack of papers. His face has been drawn over with several white lines on the photograph.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Guilt Plea Halts Trial," Los Angeles Times, 04 Sep 1935: A8.
Sailor Milton Asbill has decided to accept one to ten years on a manslaughter charge rather than go to trial for murder. He pleaded before Superior Judge Scott. Asbill and another sailor by the name of David R. Foss beat a political worker by the name of Raymond McLaughlin to death with a cement block and left his body beneath a pepper tree in a vacant lot.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1947- Milton P Asbill Manslaughter 9-3-35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Asbill, Martin Pearl, b. circa 1913
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Sailors--American--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8280
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dg4cz
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