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Another Light Sentence. J. C. Blacklidge concluded the ar gument for the State Friday evening in the Charles Rusk murder case, after which the Court delivered the charge to the jury in a series of in structions, fair and impartial, and quite satisfactory to councel on either side. At 10 this morning, after sixteen hours deliberation, the jury agreed on a verdict, finding the pris oner guilty of manslaughter and as sessing his punishment at five years confinement in the State prison north. The balloting continued through the night, eleven of the jurymen favor ing a sentence of from ten to twenty years; the twelfth man held out for a slight punishment and the figures were forced down to five years as be fore stated.
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Kokomo Gazette Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 09, 1888
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