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ill IS 10 PRISONJURY FINDS HIM GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.Some for a Life Sentence—For a Time It Looked as Though the Jury Would Not Reach Decision—Will Ask New Trial on Technicality.TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 30.—The jury in the trial of Alonzo Mattox, which retired yesterday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, came In at 10:30 this morning with a verdict of manslaughter. Under the indeterminate law this means a sentence of from two to twenty-one years.The verdict was a compromise. For many hours the jurymen who wanted to impose a life sentence and those who stood for acquittal seemed determined to hold out to the end.The fact that Mattox was clearly proven to have threatened Britton’s life, and was in a desperate mood the night of the tragedy, convinced some jurors that he was guilty of murder in the first degree. On the other hand, the evidence showing that Britton had threatened Mattox’s life, and, in a sense, was the agressor in the affray | which ended in his death, caused other jurors to vote for acquittal and especially as it had also been shown that Britton’s life might have been saved by prompt surgical attention.The defense will ask for a new trial on several grounds, chief of which will be the alleged improper remark made by the judge, in the course of the trial, in regard to putting the defendant on the witness stand.
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Logansport Morning Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 31, 1901
Page 6
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