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lilootl lt;Out For JustuCesspool SlayingI ALLADl.GA, Oct. 12. lu.R)—'1 hi* state “told you that the bloodfrom that cushion calls out for justice but it also cries out for you to make sure” Herbert Hoover Gentry spilled that blood, a defense at-torney told a Circuit Court Jury today.I Attorney AI Moseley pleaded with the jury in closing argumentsthat Gentry, 20-year-old near deaf mute on trial for murder, did notshoot his wife, Flonnie, 19, and her friend, Mrs. Dorothy Deal, 21. of Rome, (la.Moseley said there were three bullet holes in Mrs. Deal's body. The boy lt;Gentry) said he shot Mrs. Deal twice . . . doesn’t that raise a reasonable doubt in your minds about the truth of those confessions^” Moseley askedGcntiy s confession was admitted as evidence in court but theyouth testified that Talladega police officers beat the statements out iof him.| Every conceivable thing went against Gentry,” Moseley said late has been against that boy. And no man should have to go through the agony that this boy went through.”“Yesterday Mr (County Solicitor Harry) Teel told you that the blood fiorn the cushion in Gentry s home cries out for venge.lt; ee andjustice. But it also cries out for you to make sure that this boy spilled that blood.”Solicitor J, ,T. Cockrell will follow with final arguments for the state before the trial goes to the jury tjiis afternoon.l cel began final arguments irv the three-weeks old trial of Gentry. 20. charged with the murder of Mrs Deal of Rome, Ga He faces trialon charges of murdering his wife and stuffing their bodies in a privy i pit last Feb.ver .^avs
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Wed, Oct 12, 1949
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