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Last week the jury in the second trial of John W. Knight, charged with the killing of Willis W. Shifflett on the 12th of February, 1897, rendered a ver dict of murder in the second degree, and ascertained his term in the penitentiary at seven years. It was the same ver dict rendered by a jury on a former trial. Shifflett was knocked in the head by John W. Knight, and afterwards nearly burned up by some yet unknown person. In the case of EK. D. Lee, charged with obtaining cattle under false pretenses, the defendant was for the fourth time tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. The court was in contin uous session since the 12th inst., in the trial of these two cases. The repeated trials of those two cases, it is said, have cost the Commonwealth about one thousand dollars.
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Jan 28, 1898
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