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No WitnessesTakeStand•1r_ _Jor\TurkorHv \\ If.HI R \I \IM l\\P Staff WriterBROWNWOOD, March 21 AP»AI Court jur\tonight wa-ide wh(Sapet was the leader olm a n.Di.st.net Judge A O Newman charged the jury and each side had 2 2 hours to sum up its ease Indications w ere the jury would receive the case around 10 pmState Asks DeathThe state—which is asking the death penalty for what the victims fatfier called a bundled political assassination — elected to f | stake its case on the count at a ' | three-part indictment j This count said Alfred Cervante - j was the triggerman who waited mj I the shadows of a garage in Alice f j last Sept 8 - and Killed Jacob S.y\ ' Buddy Floyd Jr . that Sapet didr ‘advise, command and encourage'Cervantes to kill Jacob S. Floyd Sr., and ‘furnished arms and aid/’ but that Ctrvante j mu to kill Floyd Sr , b, i hot his son. riot ( ailed 'Brutal'j Special Prosecutor Homer Dean opened final arguments, for the state and called the slaying and the alleged plot to kill Floyd Sr.“brutal/*Fred Semaan opened for the defense He told the j ir% am •! take a hand m washing their dirty linen down there in the 79th Judicial District. “Don't by youiverdict set up Jake Floyd oiGeorge Parr as a leader dothereHe said that the 79th Distnet was county’s business jury to remem be i Mario Sapet on George ParrThe jury s job( ourt Is SurprisedJJUinoI | ‘ C|i u4 ? ■ f'a{4 t* .i ncementourt roomweekDef'ysi Stinmi¥ Veyy4k*M ini/ lt;use NVvtf\ • •wneu“t int ue ;l i 1Ola iuwho slew If j r»A ‘c I it hpv till v? 4 * I v I » v. up polIt 1C»twhich he get.The del without lt;nesses it had b rou eh wood for the trial. Defense At tv Fredfr\ A :pUiitic;S OI tut?¥ \ \ S j 4 * M'i » k « F f •f * ^0 litf Brownt i \* \k A viQ Vked t lie• j t ya ■* “1 • • I*** 1t FLit.it was% f +■•*, * . * t *na1 1 t i f i ty r* ri i i f if \ ? /•s- T ^ * r*i iiV* * t i vi t- * # -Avflvir V 4 *•..1 « I •fi Sape** J » W 4:. ' 4 » v » Ihitedkilku sa W* i frhp vie-1 i IV * * V-W vts af i i h »IOU it U *•3 y1 » ’ V f A ■■sKi * ,r 'miencied tarpv C’4 t ■vi* it 11. *Tiedns case* f v. t » ¥t ^A- it iany ot the 39to BrS rii.uf1 # VMurder Plot Retold
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Alice Daily Echo
Alice, Texas, US
Sun, Mar 22, 1953
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