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?. jury Resumes McDuff Trial ip DeliberationBy MIKE COdlRAN“ PORT WO H AP Ajury of nine men and three women re* iirlt;ecl del:b*rations today in the murder trial of Kenneth McDuff, for whom prosecutors demanded th* death \ penalty.j(. They received the case Mon*a. day night and retired 4o minti te iatet without reaching averdict.mal Defense counsel claimed the tail, sullen defendant. 20. is the , victim of a bizarre frame and , asserted in closing arguments j. he should be found innocent.The slender, black - haired ( youth from Rosebud. Tex . was tried in the Aug 6 shooting ofRobert Brar.d, 17. of Alva, adok Tex lHe and Roy Dale Green. 18. of ‘ Marlin are charged also \uth killing Brand's cousin, Marcus Dunnam 16. and the pretty companion of the two victims, Edna Louise Sullivan 16 of Everman.A fisherman discovered the bullet-riddled bodies of the two boys in the trunk of a car Aug.7 The body of Miss Sullivan as found the foUowmg night.' The law not only allows , . . but demands a verdict of guilty md death in the electric chair,” declared prosecutor Charles But’js, who led off the closing arguments jGodfrey Sullivan, chief defense lawyer, suggested the state did notprove guilt * beyond a reasonable doubt.’ and said of GreenHe is in the process of framing Kenneth McDuff for something Kenneth McDuff didn't do ”♦rariiwnfca?~i»ih■ f-|--JriTiTr ■Triii'iiiiiitiyfir d,,?,,, if'Tthii i tfci li'Wiir r.11 nn ■ 1, rrt1
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Alice Daily Echo
Alice, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 15, 1966
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