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- Bobby Hoppe, former Auburn football star, testified that he was trying to get away when he shot and killed moonshine runner Don Hudson in North Chattanooga, Tenn., nearly 31 years ago. “When I fired, I was not trying to hit him, to kill him. It never entered my mind,” Hoppe said at his first-degree murder trial in Chattanooga.
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Dec 2, 2021 · Bobby's attorney, Bobby Lee Cook, stunned prosecutors during opening arguments when he told the jury that his client had indeed killed Hudson, but only in self-defense after Hudson pointed a...
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Jun 28, 1988 · Bobby Hoppe, former Auburn football star, testified that he was trying to get away when he shot and killed moonshine runner Don Hudson in North Chattanooga, Tenn., nearly 31 years ago....
Jun 25, 1988 · Hoppe, 53, is being tried on a charge of first-degree murder for allegedly using a shotgun to kill Don Hudson, 24, a moonshine runner, on July 20, 1957.
In 1988, thirty-one years after Don Hudson was killed, a Chattanooga grand jury indicted Bobby Hoppe for his murder, in one of America's first cold case trials. Hoppe's trial became a national media event that ended with a hung jury.
ments, told the jury that "Bobby Hoppe did shoot and kill Donald Hud son on July 20, 1957. But Mr. Hoppe will get up on that stand and tell you himself that he did it in self-defense." Cook, one of the country's best legal orators, continued: "Evidence will show you Don Hudson was a well-known liquor runner with a rep utation for violence. He ...
Jun 19, 1988 · It was the summer before Hoppe’s senior year at Auburn that Hudson was killed. That fall, Auburn went 10-0 and shared the national championship with Ohio State. Hoppe was a key member of...
Jan 6, 2011 · As Hoppe was returning home from a date, Hudson pulled alongside him and brandished a gun. Hoppe reached to the back seat of his own car, retrieved a shotgun and fired. Hudson was killed.
