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manfact to the murders. However, ,: the charges were dismissed last month because of the,;! statute of limitations ,rWith the charges against \ Herndon dropped, no one is.q presently charged in the;Landrum-Margrave deaths.Emanuel Thomas and Randolph Wallace testified in., Reed’s trial that they were accomplices to the crime The. men testified that the murders,-occurred during an illegal..' drug purchase from Landrum Thomas testified to the plan-,, ning of a theft of Landrum's, I drugs and the murders and „ Wallace said he saw Reed shoot Landrum Thomas and Wallace were granted immunity from pro-, secution for their testimony ’ against ReedLITTLE ROCK (AP) - Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped capital murder charges against Phillip G. Herndon, 27, one of three persons charged in the 1974 slayings of a Pine Bluff couple.Herndon had been charged with two counts of capital murder in the Feb. 11, 1974 shooting deaths of Carmen Sue Margrave, 18, and Ernest Dene Lanny” Landrum, 21. whose bodies were found the next day in the trunk of a car at Reservoir Park in Little Rock.Alonzo Clay Reed, 29, who also was charged with capital murder in the slayings, was ac-?uitted last week in Pulaski ircuit CourtDeputy Prosecutor David H Williams said Tuesday that Reed’s acquittal led pro secutors to drop the charges against Herndon He said there was not sufficient evidence to convict HerndonHerndon was arrested last May in Beverly Hills, Calif., after police stopped him on a traffic violation He was extradited to Arkansas and has remained in jail since.Stanley Eugene Frost, 28, of North Little Rock was the third person charged in the slayings He was charged with being an accessory after theTHURSDAYSPECIAL2 pieces chicken, 2 vegetables, roll forReg $ 1 39‘1.55 IThere are more than 17 million tractors at work in the world, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Some 12 million are used in North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.NILOAK \L 1218CENTER ' MILITARY776-1111Open 10 30 to 8 Sun -Thurs Open 10 30 to 9 Fri.-Sat
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Benton Courier
Benton, Arkansas, US
Wed, Apr 11, 1979
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