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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921r I N. E. Peterson and H. A. MorganMade the Pleas In the Case Monday Morning.All the testimony in the (). L. Bent-j ley case was m Saturday and at ! ( ‘clock Monday morning the pleas for the State anil Uefense started.Mr. Morgan gave the plea for the State and it was a wonderful piece of oratory, founded on the facts in the case as brought out all through the trial by the witnesses for the state.Mr. Morgan attempted to show the I jury that the stories as told by Bentley and his wife on the stand were an afterthought on the pa*t of Bentley and his wife and were not in accordance with the stories told by them to those who were at the Bentley home the night of the murder.Attorney N K. Peterson made the | plea for the defense. He reviewed I the entire case from start-to finish in 1 iiis efforts to prove that the shooting , had been done entirely accidentally.According to Attorney Peterson’s j arguments Mr. Bentley really didn’t know Mrs. Bentley ever had done 1 anything wrong. And that it was up-j parent that the shooting was purely accidental.Following the pleas Judge Cather-wood gave his charge to the jury and they retired about 1:30 o’clock this I afternoonr -Shortly before four o’clock the injury returned a terdict of ‘•NOT GUILTY.” They were out a little over two hours.
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Albert Lea Times Enterprise
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, Feb 23, 1921
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