Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1909 — SHARP’S PISTOL USED? [ARTICLE]

SHARP’S PISTOL USED?

State's Theory la That Former SherlfF* Gun Killed Carmack. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 23.—When court adjourned In the midst of the cross-examination of John D Sharp, the honors were easy between the state and the defense in the CooperSharp trial, for the slaying of farmer United States Senator Edward W. Car mack. Young Robin Cooper, under « bitter cross-examination, held his own. He was always cool and displayed an inclination to be fair that evidently Impressed the jury favorably. The next witness, and the only other one of the day, was John D. Sharp, another of the defendants. Sharp declared he never saw the revolver Robin Cooper used until the boy was using it, and had no knowledge of Robin Cooper or Robin Jones wanting to borrow a gun. The state’s theory is that the automatic revolver Is Sharp’s, and three times it has had the number of the gun entered in the record.