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FINEDPerry Kerns FoundGuilty of AssaultA Frederick County Circuit td if Luttrcll ever made trouble Court Jury last night found 7* while at his (Kerns * home. Kerns year old Perry Kerns of Oross answered: * Several times He'd Junction guilty of assault and bat- 1 get cross, I d coax him ... Just tery in the Aug. 4 shotgun death the easiest way to get him to of his neighbor. Silas LuttreU. 45 leave.**It recommended a fine of 1240. | He added. **Sometimes be d The jury of eight men and four pah ahold of women deliberated one hour and 43 minutes before returning the;verdict at t:4S pm. in the daylong trial.Kerns went on trail on a charge of murder at 10 a m. yesterday The defense held the shooting at Kerns* home was in self defense. The defense attempted show Kerns could not have intentionally shot LuttreU by citing the site of the room and the location d th body.The Commonwealth contended the shooting was intentional.Judge Elliott Marshall imposed the sentence set by the jury Kerns was also ordered to pay court costs The verdict was the lesser of several possibilities under instructions read to the jury by Judge EUkrft Marshall The maxIftwUntaS tm t M g»Southern Committee ChWASHINGTON t# - Southern Democrats will retain the hulk of Senate and House committee chairmanships in the new 36th Congress but Southern conservatives probably will find their influence diluted.With the Democrats sharply increasing their control of hath branches in Tuesdays voting, the top committee posts in nearly all cases will remain firmly m the hands of the men who hold them in the 33th, In many instances.imum verdict would have been ****** nwn chairmen forfirst degree murder, with other* e|*r*ranging downward from second *n, oanaie* tlu* means that degree murder, voluntary and in* ® ** **** JJ landing committee voluntary manslaughter to assault chairmanships will remain with and batterv \ Southerners. In the House, theCommonwealth's Attorney Jos- hjuth will keep 12 erf the 19 posts, eph A. Massie, Jr.. Mating in his The chairmanships go strictly bysummation that evidence showed se*U°r,ty*1 . . .Kerns was guilty of an “unlaw The change in chairmanships forced by the election inful homicide.*’ had left the degree up to the jury.Except for about an hour on the witness stand early yesterday afternoon, Kerns sat stonily and expressionless throughout t h e trial behind his two attorneys. J. Sloan Kykendall and Peter McKee. Kerns wore a plaid shirt, blue coat, brown pants and shoes and carried a brown hat and cane.*1 never heard the gun go off he testified under cross exanuna tion. The weapon was a 16 gauge shotgun.Mr. Kuykendall called Kerns to the stand at about 12 30 p.m. as the first defense witness. The defense called nine witnesses ui all. and the Commonweal!h 12.Kerns testified he had known LuttreU “nearly all his life.** Ask*either branch involves the House Interior Committee. Hep. Clair Engle lt;D-Calif», who headed it in the 85th Congress, was elected to the Senate. Expected to replaceVice Pres -I Of EffortsWASHINGTON UP - Vice Pre 1 sident Nixon is taking charge of efforts to rejuvenate the disor1 gan 1 zed Republican party. He ii , likely to put the accent on youlii in doing so. j Although Nixon won’t bear any , such official designation as party commander, President Eisen
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Winchester Evening Star
Winchester, Virginia, US
Thu, Nov 06, 1958
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