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JUDGE MCGEE -
DARK HALLWAY
D60h M-
Attorney Levi Presley, arriving at court for another
day's activity, finds criminal district court number-
two empty, and strangely silent. Court action was sus-
pended with the anhruncement at mid-morning that ailing
judge Dave Mcgee has died at Harris hospital in Fort
Worth. Judge Willis McGregor has been serving on the
number-two bench since McGee was forced to leave it
November-third. Attorney Presley, who was to have de-
fended a negro woman in a murder trial today, is told
by Judge McGregor the case will be reset. McGregor3
reminisces that he and McGee have trod paralleling
paths in the past. Both attended old Fort Worth High
school, from which Judge McGee was graduated in 1911.
McGee, shown here presiding in the old criminal courtsbuilding, was 77 when he died,
In his early days, he
was prosecutor under two district attorneys./In 1925
he became jidge of the newly-created county court-at-
law. The status was changed to Criminals district1:55
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Judge McGee], script, December 11, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc954081/m1/1/?q=%221963-12-11%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.