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Show Boyer to be Taken To Provo for Tests At Mental Hospital Pachal L. Boycr, 32, accused Davis county quadruple slayer, will be committed to the state mental hospital at Provo Friday for observation, ob-servation, Joseph Holbrook, sheriff sher-iff of Davis county, said Thursday following an order to that ' effect signed by -Judge Eugene E. Pratt of the Third judicial district. Judge Pratt ordered Boyer confined con-fined for 30 days in the hospitaL The order was consented to by Boyer and his attorney, R. Verno-McCullough, Verno-McCullough, who signed an agreement agree-ment to that effect. Thus Boytr'a defense won a round in the legal battle designed to keep the former meat buyer from facing a firing squad at th-Utah th-Utah state prison for the slaying last October of Mrs. Blanche Nelson, Nel-son, Woods Cross widow. Boyer has already been convicted on me murder count. Hia trial, under un-der the new state law, on a not guilty plea by reason of insanity,, resulted in a hung jury. He was not tried for the alayings the sam night of Mr. and Mrs. J. Loren East and the fatal shooting of" George Reich, Salt Lake City youth Judge Pratt's action bars any-further any-further proceedings in the cas-until cas-until Boyer is recommented to the-sheriff's the-sheriff's custody at the end of 30 days of "observation." Judge Pratt'3 order read in part: "In the opinion of the court, batd" upon the evidence introduced in the j trial of this case, there is some question as to the present mental condition of the accussed, as well as his mental condition at the tira of the alleged offense; and that, under the circumstances, the acens-(Flease acens-(Flease turn to page 4) |