 |
|
The trail of Eugene REED for the killing of Alma
WILSON through reckless automobile driving on the Tip Top road last January
was brought to a close Wednesday afternoon when the jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment at one year in the penitentiary and $500 fine. Counsel for
REED consumed all of Thursday morning arguing for the setting aside of the verdict upon the ground that the indictment on which he was convicted was faulty. The court overruled the motions for setting the verdict aside.
REED'S counsel noted an appeal and was given bond until the Supreme Court passes on the case. The
REED case has attracted wide attention. The trial began Monday and was continued until late in the afternoon of Wednesday. The case was bitterly fought many of the leading lawyers of the Tazewell bar being engaged as counsel either for the State or for the defense. Names of the Jury in
REED case - H. KELLY, John F. MCGRAW, John H. BANDY, N.W.
MCCONNELL, C.R. HOLBROOK, C.D. LARIMER, F.F. HURT, James B.
HARRISSON, John W.C. RITTER, Joseph P. DAVIDSON, J.G.
WHITMAN, Mack CATRON. The commonwealth's Attorney was assisted in the prosecution of the case by R.O.
CROCKETT and T.C. BOWEN. REED was defended by CHAPMAN, Peery & Buchanan and Judge W.J.
HENSON, Roanoke. The Commonwealth's Attorney was assisted in the prosecution of the case by R.O.
CROCKETT and T.C. BOWEN. REED was defended by CHAPMAN,
PEERY and BUCHANAN and Judge W.J. HENSON, of Roanoke. The crime for which Eugene
REED was tried was committed on January 14 on the public highway in front of the residence of Mrs. Henry S.
BOWEN between Wittens Mills and Tip Top. Alma WILSON, and her sister, Virginia
WILSON, Dewey Stowers WILSON and Guy STOWERS were in a buggy enroute to a box supper at Wittens Mills, when they were overtaken by an automobile driven by Eugene
REED. The buggy, although its driver obeyed the rule of the road and cut to the right, was demolished by the automobile, its occupants thrown helter skelter, as a result of which Alma
WILSON died a short time afterwards at the home of Mrs. BOWEN. After the accident the automobile sped away, but its driver and others were arrested in Bluefield, and the car was found in Princeton, where it had been stored in a private garage. The accident happened Saturday night about 7:30 o'clock, and there appeared no apparent cause for the action of the automobilists, except that the were filled up on Tip Top liquor to such an extent that they could not see the road.
The trial of Marvin SLEDD for the killing of Peel HARMAN will doubtless attract much attention. The case is set for Friday, today. The Commonwealth's Attorney will be assisted in the prosecution of the case by R.O.
CROCKETT and SLEDD will be defended by Attorneys George
WARREN of Bristol and John R. DILLARD, of Bluefield. A special panel of forty men has been summoned from which a jury will be selected.
|
|
