Original sentence: After appealing to the Alabama Supreme Court, he was granted a new trial and was acquitted.Chief of police Tobe Domingus was found guilty of murder and sentenced to ten years.It fray lasted only a few minutes but left two men dead and others seriously wounded.Local farmers opposed this levy and united in a body called the "Farmers Alliance"; the arrest of some of the alliance's men led to a riot.On October 12, 1889, Dothan was the scene of a deadly altercation resulting from a dispute over a tax levied on all wagons operating within city limits
Edited sentence: Appeals to the Alabama Supreme Court resulted in a new trial, and Domingus was acquitted.Chief of police Tobe Domingus was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to ten years.Dothan was the scene of a deadly altercation resulting from a dispute over a tax levied on all wagons operating within city limits.Local farmers opposed this levy and united in a body called the "Farmers Alliance".On October 12, 1889,.The arrest of some of the alliance's men led to a riot.The violence lasted only a few minutes, but left two men dead and others seriously wounded