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on ui. we re reaoy w con T t inmK 11 uni.JACKSON. Miss., (UP)—T}i c Mississippi Stale Susnerne Court Monday upheld the- death sun* Icnccs of J. W. Poore, while, and F.ugcne Jlla.il Cooper, Nc-gio, and Oidcred H al I’oore be executed in ihe state'* portable electric chair Dec, 5 Qlt;l Cooper on Doc. 10.Estate Court Upholds Death SentencesOf TwoI1 oore u*a tried and eon-Tlclrii for the July, 1347, murder of A. S. Hover, California oil man by * Jonc* county court. The state supreme raurl bail previously upheld the conviction and today overruled * suggestion ef error. l»oore originally •had been ordered executed on Thankstivln* Day.Cooper was convlclcd of the July, 1047, nxc murder nf Ira Ellis, about 70, n while rcsidcul of the Kewnncc community near Meridian.The court also upheld si life sentence affixed by a Scot I county circuit caurl ngaliMt HU -tile Denn Ilrainletlc, former Jackson bellhop, for robbing the hank of Lake, Miss., In June of 1947.In other action, the high court upheld a Lee roucty circuit courl decision ordering Jnmcs Crump lo serve out n two yenr sunlOKG far grnml larceny Imposed cm him by the lown court in May of 1542,Crump hfil been Indicted aiwl plead fullly during the May. 1012 term nl court. His Iwo-ycxr icuLcnca was deferred Indefinitely upon recommendation by the district attorney. Ill May of. IDtT.hrbeusshofofus| I'r *1 wSIHit district attorney fllrd a hill of Information and during th* December, 1947, lerrn of court. Crump was ordered In begin scrrlnt the sentence.I ACrump's attorneys osked for release on Ihe grounds that by /canon of the five years delay In Imposing sentence, the courl Had lost Jurisdiction and lhal the sentence imposed 1 h tci was, therefore, void. The high court nilcd that there was no statute which nulhorixod n suspension or sentence in felony cases and ruled that the order postponing the sentence had the effect of keeping the care in court uniII it finally was disposed ol by en-tiy of an order of sentence.La'n,nhIIvV.VrC-Delians Urged To 'Open Eyes' To Tourist ProfitPresent Mississippi tourist trade is worth nbuut the same ns the entire 1045 cotton crop It. y. Smith, assistant malinger of Delta Council, said lids week, urging Delians to open o u r ryes lo the greater profit that enn .be ours.According to a recent Federal Reserve Bank estimate, tour-Isis spend about $200,000,000 n year in Mississippi, as compared to only half that much fiv Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia.Though there ts licnvy spend-
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Tue, Nov 09, 1948
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