Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1915 — McCoy Trial at Frankfort Postponed Until Feb. 18th. [ARTICLE]

McCoy Trial at Frankfort Postponed Until Feb. 18th.

William H. McCoy, the Frankfort man who killed his wife and ’her admirer, John Byerley, has been postponed until Feb. 18th on request of the prosecuting attorney, Charles G. Gunther. The hange of manslaughter for the killing of his wife had originally Ibecn set for the Btth of the month. Attorneys Robison and Strawn, who represent McCoy, were present when the request for postponement was made and urged that an early day be set for the trial. McCoy at a preliminary hearing entered a plea of “not guilty.” It is understood that his defense will ■be temporary insanity. The grand jury which investigated the case, refused to indict McCoy for murder, (but instead returned two indictments for manslaughter. The fact that Byerley had designedly won away the affections of Mrs. McCoy, and the pair had indulged in a guilty acquaintance, over the remonstrance of the husband, it is said to have influenced the grand jury to indict on the minimum charge. Conviction upon the manslaughter charge carries a penalty of imprisonment for two to twentyone years in th* state prison.