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Show THREE MURDER CASES j ARE SET FOR TRIAL Criminal Charge Against Dr. E. s. Payne Is Reduced to Second Degree. One the heaviest criminal calendars In years was taken up by Judge G. (I. Arm-fitr.n Arm-fitr.n Mon. I, is i mnp when the setting set-ting of cases for the January term was mndi . The docket opens January i" with the case of David Edwards, cluirK'-d with robbery; and the last setting is the case of i :ui s. Marshall, who is accused of a statutory crime, hut there Is silent probability prob-ability thut the calendar can be Hnlahed tin schedule time, as several of tMe cases are ecrtjiln to be lengthy hearings. Thre Murder Cases. There are three murder cases set down fo.- hearing: The State s. ir. K. B HiM-nf. charged with the mUrder, through B criminal operation, of Miss Alice Ferguson; Fer-guson; the case of the Statu against Krnnk Maz7.ii. and the case agalnet Frank Womack Reduction of Pnyiie Charge. In the case against Dr. E. S Payne, who had Ills preliminary hearing on B charge of murder In the first degreei an amended Information was tiled reducing the offense to murder in the second degree. de-gree. Dr. Payne was arraigned on this harge und entered a idea of not guilty. The c:-Be against W E Phillips, charged with crlmlnul conspiracy, was passed for the term. Thre-Year Sentence. Three yean In the penitentiary was the sentence Imposed upon V " li.ilc l Who pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, bur-glary, and who hud two other similar charges pending. Baker burglarized a chicken-house In this it v last November |