JACKSON, Miss. (Associated Press) - Homer Edgeworth, whose long life took him from a run-in with gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly in 1932 to a judgeship in a case involving the man who integrated the University of Mississippi decades later, died Monday. He was 102.

He died at a hospice in Ridgeland, his daughter Cecilia Baker said.

Edgeworth's brush with the notorious bandit came Nov. 30, 1932, when Kelly and his accomplices, including another gangster named Albert Bates, robbed the Citizens State Bank at Tupelo, Miss.

The thieves got away with $38,000 in cash as well as bonds and travelers checks. Describing Kelly after the robbery, Edgeworth was famously quoted as saying at the time: "He was the kind of guy that, if you looked at him, you would never have thought he was a bank robber."

Edgeworth was a Hinds County justice of the peace in June 1962 when he convicted James Meredith of lying about his residency on a voter registration form. Newspaper reports and government records do not show that Meredith served any time on the conviction. In September of that year, two people were killed and dozens injured during a riot on Meredith's first day of school at Ole Miss. It was considered by many as a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle.