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MKter W«h 11Answers on Son's Slaying ConvictionAtTSTIN lt;PP — The mother of Jimmy N1, Shaver Tuesday asked the Board of Pardons and Paroles 11 questions about the death sentence conviction of her son,District attorneys from Bexar county — where the crime w*m committed, and Bell county — where Shaver was tried and found guilty, promptly fired back what they said were answers.However, Shaver’s mother had left the hearing room and heard none of the rebuttal.Shaver was found guilty and sentenced to death for the rape-slaying of 3-year-old Cheri Jo Horton In a gravel pit near San Antonio on July 4, 1954.liot $erte» of Stay*He has received a series of stays of execution, the last two stemming from n purported confession made by Donald Summers, another prisoner who was in the Bexar county jail at the same time Shaver was held there. The former Lackland AFB airman is scheduledto go to the electric chair at Huntsville prison sometime after midnight March 7However, his 42-yoar-old mother, Mrs. E. E. McGhee of JB1 Paso, asked the three • member board, “Can you convict a person to death when so many questions are unanswered? Those ponding questions do not prove without a doubt that Jimmy Shaver is guilty,”Then, in a clear firm voice, she read the list of questions,Karlior, Mrs. McGhee had been told by Board Chairman Jack Boss that the hearings woifld be conducted '‘informally.” He invited Mrs. McGhee to stand or remain seated.”Mrs, McGhee said she preferred to stand. ,.Tlt;77Knees BoardFirmly erect, Mrs. McGhee faced the board members from the far right side of the raised desk behind which Boss, Pat Bullock and A. C. Turner sit to hear appealsMrs. McGhee said she agreed to this hearing -after being told Monday tho only manner In will eh the three-member board could act would be to hear her appeal together. I came to Austin yesterday thinking I would have a quiet talk with each board member . . . I’m not a public speaker, but I amfirst a Christian and it child of God. Secondly* I am a mother, she said,Then she read her list of qnos-tiontf. As she finished, the Rev: S, A, Williams of El Paso rose from his chair and quickly handed the board members a copy of the questions, Mrs. McGhee swiftly walked from the room. Will’ams nodded to his wife, who had been sitting at the rear of the hearing I room. The minister ami Ids wife) followed Mrs. McGhee Into the hall.Neither Boss, nor any other hoard member, had had time to any anything.Minutes passed. Rexna county Dist. Att3r. Uubert Green arose, ready to offer answers to Mrs, McGhee's questions.When Mrs. McGhee failed to return, a newsman went out to look for her. Green joined the search briefly. Then a secretary in the Pardon and Paroles office «nld Mrs. McGhee had left.Boss said 1m was sorry she didn’t stay. T had no idea she was leaving,” he added.
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Bonham Bonhi
Bonham, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 27, 1958
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