Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. JURY’ OUT SIXTEEN HOURS. Manslaughter Verdict i u William McCoy Case. Frankfort, Ind., May I.—The jurj in the case of the state against William McCoy, charged with the murder of John Byerly, after being out sixteen hours, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. McCoy Is thirty-two years old, and will be taken to the Indiana state prison at. Michigan City. The verdict carries a sentence of from two to twenty-one years. McCoy did not display any emotion when the verdict was read. At a former trial he was acquitted of the charge of having murdered his wife on the ground of temporary insanity.