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New Trial for Sutherland.Indianapolis, Ind., Nov., 18. -William Sutherland of Knox, Starke county, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Edward Fetters a year ago, is to be released for a new trial. The Supreme court held rjhat he was not convicted according to law. The murder case was one of the most sensational that ever came up in northern Indiana. The case was reversed because the court instructed the jurors that if they found from the evidence that the human body found in the grave beneath the hody of the mule was the dead body of Fetters they were justified in finding that a murder had been intentionally committed, and that the person who buried it had something of a criminal character to do with the murder. The court says that this invaded the province of the jury by telling them what Inferences to draw from the facts proved.
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Goshen Weekly Times
Goshen, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 19, 1897
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