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Prosecuting Attorney J. Kenneth Williamson has tendered his resignation to Common Pleas Judge R. L. dowdy.The resignation was contained in a letter sent to Judge dowdy at Cleveland, where he is sitting on the common pleas bench of Cuyahoga County, and is effective immediately.The action will probably mean that the trial of C. W. “Tacks” Latimer for the murder of Charles K. Mackrodt, November 26, which was set down for trial in Common Pleas Court here December 26, will be postponed and held over until the January term of court, when the new prosecutor, J. C. Marshall, is in office.Claims that the state would bo 18, asking for a continuant o of thehandicapped in the prosecution of ! ease until a later date, which application was refused. The retiring prosecutor alleges the trial is one ofthe case against Latimer at this time because of the indifference of jurors during the holiday season, that the trial would possibly hang over during an interim when there }g no term of court, which would permit a. question of procedure, and that it is unfair to the state to hold the trial during the last few days of the retiring prosecutor, when the case might hang over until the expiration of the prosecutor's term, were given as the reasons for the resignation.They were contained in a letter addressed to Judge Clowdy, December10 F WORST COLD WAVE A F EELS EFFECTS OF BLASTgreat importance, that the continuance requested is not unusual or for an unreasonable length of time, and that action so far, if the ca«o is tried on the date scheduled, would lay open thn possibility of error and jeopardize the success »f the prosecution, in dosing, the pro*.cuter declares he is unwilling to lead the State Into a case in which error will bp ro proha ole and at a time when the State cannot do Itself justice.*Bused on the resignation sen* to Judge Dowdy at Cleveland, Friday, Mr. Williamson declared Saturday that ho is no longer prosecutor. Whether the Court will apjmint a special prosecutor immediately andThlt; first merr Co folio I ever that is a most fulle of tl plish num nece ed t to ti pedd also liquc way. the rect of a “T viola wish sion latei mun secu the asm atte you may
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 20, 1924
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