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Sedillo givesplea of guilty(Continued From Page 11“Then what did vou do‘,“►Stainer questioned.“I saw her fall down and ranin and called the police. Then I called rm dad. I went outside. He (Sedillo) ran across the street.”Ken stated he saw Sedillo knock at the Franco residence, 908 Pecan Drive, but the\ wouldn't let him in. Ken stated Sedillo then went to the home of Sue Shanks, 910 Pecan Drive.Diane Desrosiers, 12, the daughter of the deceased, testified that the night of the crime Sedillo and her mother “were fussing.”She was standing on the edge of the lawn near Pepper s home when the alleged crime occurred.“She i Janet) was yelling ‘call the police.' My mother was standing against the car Van was holding her against the car. Her back was against the car.When asked if the trees on the lawn were in the way, Diane stated, “No sir.”“Then what happened’’” Stagner asked.He f Sedillo) got the gun out. He reached in, got the gun and shot her. He held her for a little while. 1 guess he realized she was dead. I couldn't do anything at the time.“He (Sedillo) kept saying, Tloved her, 1 loved her.’ I guesshe was crying. He walked inthe street. I ran up to him andsaid If you loved her, why didyou kill her?’*“He went up to Sue’s house.. . Sue ran up to my mom. She felt her pulse. She was dead. She (Mrs. Shanksi hugged her and asked me if I had called the police. I went to Perpper’s house and called the police.”Also testifying in Thursday's session was Mrs. Sue Shanks, 910 Pecan Drive. Mrs. Shanks testified that she did not hear the shot.“I heard about it when Van Sedillo came into my house. Imet him at my bedroom door,♦He said, ‘Sue, Sue 1 killed Janet. She’s dead. 1 shot her, I shot her.' ’Mrs. Shanks testified that a week prior to the killing around 5:30 a.m. Sedillo had broken into her house. She was in bed asleep and w hen she awoke, “he was standing over my bed. He wanted Janet. He broke down and started crying. Then he said some day either lie would killwher or she would kill him.”Also testifying during the first das of trial were P rank Greene,wDanny Kiper, Denny Brew ton, Ronnie Graves, Gill Carpenter. Tom Fdgett, Kill Main and George Dennis, all of the Roswell ('its Police who did the investigation of the shooting.Mr and Mrs. Manuel Franco testified that Sedillo had come to their door the night of the shooting.Dr. Gordon Willis and Dr. U*e F. Wollard testified to thecondition of the bods and thatwthe gun must have been at close range They had found a rim of black discoloration around the svound. indicating gun powder.Mrs. Mae Neatherlin, an employer of the deceased, testified that Janet had come to svork often with bruises and black eves. She also said thatvSedillo had one time called her. “He called me that night andsaid she f Janet i had passed his station in a car with some other man and to tell her that if he ever saw her with another man again, he would kill both of them. The next morning, early, he called back and said, T changed my mind about that, don't tell her.’ So I didn’t.” The jury then took a tour of the scene of the alleged crime at the request of both the prosecution and the defense. The jurors were transported by Chaves County Sheriff'svehicles and given a tour of thescene with comment onlv bv the¥court. Judge Snead.The jurors saw the location of the Franco residence, 908 Pecan; the Shanks residence, 910 Pecan; Pepper’s house at 915 Pecan; and the Desrosiers residence at 911 Pecan. Pointed out there, were the markings of the location of the front wheel of Sedillo’s car and the approximate location of the body. The state rested its case upon return to the courtroom.At that time Norwood movedto dismiss the charge of first degree murder on the basis that “the state has failed to give sufficient evidence showing that the shooting was of a deliberate and premeditated design,unlawfully malicious,”¥Judge Snead denied theruling.Appraisaaid to headstate officeSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -Haskel B. Smith, the first director of the state Property Appraisal Department will retire Dec. 31, and will be succeeded by his deputy.Gov. Bruce King announced Smith’s impending retirement Thursday and said he will appoint deputy director Cecil Pickett to replace him.The Property Appraisal Department was created by the 1970 legislature to replace the old state Tax Commission.Former Gov. David F. Cargo selected Smith to be its first director.Smith had retired a short time previously as superintendent of the Cobre Consolidated Schools at Bavard.+r“We certainly appreciate the great service that Haskell has rendered to the state and wish him everv success in hiswretirement,” King said.Pickett has been deputy director of the department since March 1971. Before that he was Dona Ana County assessor for four years.Cholera killed nearly 400 persons in Indonesia in the first fivp months of 1972contitl(AMlt;thtfinsclnecelt;Fatoiex]Dahoibeatyoitht189amattbvnin(sic
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Roswell, New Mexico, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1972
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