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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1964
Page
4
State Police charged 47 year old Headman May with murder after he allegedly killed his wife's parents Abb Hobson and Lula Hobson at their Harold home and wounded Ruth Ann May, his wife, in two ankles as she had recently separated from him and stayed with her parents.
The State Supreme Court handed down several rulings. Lewis Mack Rucker was sentenced to five to 18 years for unarmed robbery but the court found the 1961 statute invalid. he remains jailed on an arson conviction. The court ordered the release of Jenny Stumbo and Delbert Browning from prison after reversing their 1 to 10 year sentences for breaking and entering due to lack of counsel at their 1963 trial. Richard C. Gale of Welch was found not guilty of negligence in removing a growth from an infant’s face. The court agreed to hear an appeal on a land dispute in which Wheeling Dollar Savings and Trust Co. seeks to reverse a Marshall County decision over funds Moore kept from a Rogerson estate real estate deal.
Charleston AP Burl Sawyers was told to submit the 1965 66 budget to the Board of Public Works for review before sending it to the legislature. The 57th Legislature will control the State Road Fund, projected at about 155 million dollars next year. The Board asked to end the fund’s independent status and place it under legislative appropriation. Sawyers reacted that he was delighted and would cooperate with the legislature.
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