Smith Hughey, age 25, a farmer, was killed in 1934 by a lynch mob in Burton County, Mississippi. Hughey and Robert Jones were on trial for the murder of Connis Gillispie. They were seized by a mob from deputy sheriffs and hanged near the spot where deputy sheriff Mark Mason had been slain while investigating Gillispie’s death. Robert Jones, 21, a farmer, was killed in 1934 by a lynch mob in Benton County, Mississippi. Jones had been convicted of murdering Mark Mason, a constable, and sentenced to death. The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed Jones’s conviction. Jones and Smith Hughey were also on trial for the murder of one Connie Gillespie. In the custody of the sheriff’s department, the two men were seized by a mob and hanged near the spot where Mason had been slain while investigating Gillespie’s death.

Smith Hughey

Robert Jones