George Hughes

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Charge:	Bank Robbery (incld. Armed)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	1921
Year Convicted:	1921
Year Cleared:	1931
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Minnesota
County or Region of Crime:	Chisago
City of Crime:	Almelund
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"George Hughes was the co-defendant of Louis Thorvik. Both men were convicted in 1921 of robbing the Farmers State Bank in Almelund, Minnesota and sentenced to life in prison. The prosecution's main evidence was an eyewitness identification and testimony by Chisago County Deputy Sheriff H. L. Hammerstrom. The getaway driver for the robbery was convicted in 1925 and the day of his sentencing he told authorities that Louis Thorvik and George Hughes were not involved in the robbery. The driver, James Laughlin, gave a statement describing the crime and he named his four accomplices. Years later Laughlin's account was corroborated and in 1931 Thorvik and Hughes were pardoned by Minnesota's governor. On the time of the robbery Hughes had registered at the Rogers Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, 600 miles from Almelund. "
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness error
Innocence Proved By:	Actual culprit discovered
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932"
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George Hughes

Charge:

Bank Robbery (incld. Armed)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

1921

Year Convicted:

1921

Year Cleared:

1931

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Minnesota

County or Region of Crime:

Chisago

City of Crime:

Almelund

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness error

Innocence Proved By:

Actual culprit discovered

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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