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J. D. Royce (or “Royes”) was mentioned as a practicing criminal defense lawyer in Hot Springs (Garland County), Arkansas, about 1895. The notice included the information that he had been appointed to represent a white man charged with murder. Nothing else is known about him.
Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 348 n354, 375 (2000); Willard G. Gatewood, Jr., ed., Arkansas Negroes in the 1890s: Documents, 33 Arkansas Hist. Q. 293 (Wint 1974);