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Walker SaidROAD-E-O WINNER —O. J. Taylor Jr., was the winner of the Teen-age Safe-drivingI • # Road-E-O staged by the Smackover Jaycees Saturday. He was presented a Champion Driver'sNOT ■ SyChltlC certificate and will compete in the State contest in Magnolia. Pictured are, left to right, Rogerk| M I 1 • Beavers, Taylor, Ed Wheatley, David Burroughs and Wayne Widener. Wheatley was chairmanI^IOT I SYCnOTIC of the event and the others were judges. Bob Sharp, another judge, was not present when theLITTLE HOCK (AP)-James Dean Walker, 25, of Reno, Nev., has been ‘fighting the world for years, but is not psychotic, a psychiatrist testified in Walker’s trial here Thursday.Walker is being tried in Pulaski County Circuit Court on a charge of first degree murder in the shooting April 16, 1963, of Patrolman Jerrell P. Vaughan.picture was made.- «*■*Vaughan was slain in a gun battle about three miles southeast of Little Rock on Arkansas 130Dr. Elizabeth B. Fletcher of Little Rock said Walker was insecure, unstable and hostile, felt rejected, an outsider, compulsive, resentful, wanting approval.”He needs prolonged treatment, she said.Dr. Charles Taylor of the State Hospital staff, a state rebuttal witness to Dr. Fletcher, said Walker probably was not mentally ill at the time Vaughan was killed.Dr. Fletcher, while cross-examined by the state, read two letters Walker wrote to his father. One said his parents had always hated him, and he did not need their help. The second letter told his father to disregard th first letter, but to send it to the State Hospital authorities and ask what it meant.
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El Dorado Times

El Dorado, Arkansas, US

Fri, May 08, 1964

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