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Court 0£ Appeals Turns Down Billy Stanley MotionCollin County District Attorney Torn O’Connell was advised Thursday that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had overruled a motion for rehearing by Bill Stanley.The court made the ruling without written opinion on the motion for re-hearing.July 28, the court had upheld the death sentence against Stanley for the September 1969 beating death of his bride.A Collin County jurv convicted Stanley of murdering Linda Magers Stanley, 21, on September 16, 1969.Stanley married the McKinney woman less than a month earlier on August 18, 1969.A 13-year-old nephew testified that he saw Stanley beat the woman three times on the afternoon she died.Hie nephew said the woman was bruised, and battered and had teeth missing when the couple came to stay at his parents home on the Chambers-ville road outside of McKinney.Psychiatrists testified that at the time Stanley was mentally ill” and had a “socio-pathic personality.’’Stanley testified that he beat his wife only once that day and did not intend to kill her.But the Court of Criminal Appeals July 28, 1971 ruledStanley was sane legally because he still knew right from wrong, according to medical experts.Absentee voting has been running slow in the city’s projiosedcharter amendment election, according to City Secretary Leahmon Bryant.To date, two votes had been cast and two applications received for absentee ballots received in the mail, he said.Absentee voting began last week and will continue through October 29 at Bryant’s office at the McKinney City Hall.Voting may be done absentee weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the final day.If voters bring voter registration certificates, it makes things go faster, according to Bryant.The voter registration certi-secuted two years after the date the act was committed by District Judge Tom Ryan, who was then the Collin County Attorney.ficate needed will be the 1971 one, and not the one for which voters are registering at this time for 1972.That certificate goes into effect March 31, 1972.On the ballot for the November 2 election are two proposed changes in the city charter. They are one calling for staggered terms for the mayor and six council members and one calling for a runoff vote when a majority is not received. A majority vote is defined as 50 per cent of total vote cast, plus at least one.Regular voting will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. November 2 at the city hall with Ken Eu-banks as election judge.Regretfully The C-G ReportsAdditional information relating to these bulletins will b^ foundon inside pages of this edition.MRS. MARY LEE HOWELL CYNTHIA ROSE MARTINEZfnr M rQ Mu TV I iPP ^ nnmri /lAr* urill KnThe case was originally pro-Absentee Vote RunningLight In City Election
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Mckinney Daily Courier Gazette
Mckinney, Texas, US
Fri, Oct 22, 1971
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