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By JEPR HOLLADAY Staff Writer A life sentence was assessed Favis Clay Martin late Thesday after 4 jury in Bist District Court found him guilty of murder with malice in the Feb —_— staying as his former wife. Defense attorney Selden Hale said he would appeal the decision. The panel of five women and seven men deliberated for an hour and 20 minutes before finding Martin sane at the time of the shooting. They rejected alternate verdicts of murder without malice and not guilty by reason of insanity Dist. Atty. Tom Curtis in troduced evidence in pre-sen tencing arguments that Martin had a prior conviction for viola tion of the federal Dyer Act and had served two years in Fort Leavenworth ( Kan.) prison for being absent without leave from the U.S. Air Force Martin, 33, of 2216 EF, 19th, showed no emotion as sentence was passed. He was accused of shooting Mrs. June Etta Martin, 35, of Tempe, Ariz. who had come to Amarilo to discuss custody of their small child. Martin was found mentally competent to face the murder charge in a sanity trial held last week. In testimony Tuesday Amarillo — psychiatrist Dr Robert D. Brittain characterized Martin as. “grossly psychotic” and ‘schizophrenic,’ “ think in all probability he was psychotic when he com mitted this act,’' the psychiatrist said. Curtis, in arguments to the jury, contended the psychiatrists'’s examination had not been thorough and had been unduly influenced by the con clusions of other psychiatrists in mental institutions where Martin had been confined. Two eyewitnesses to the shooting said Martin had (See MARTIN on Page 12)
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 10, 1970
Page 68
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