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Show PUCKETT NOT GUILTY OF SLAYING MOTHER CLINTON, Mo., Dec C Tllllo O. Puckett. who had been on trial here since Monday, charged with tho murder of his mother. Mrs. Susan Puckett Mak-lnson, Mak-lnson, was found not guilty this afternoon. after-noon. Mrs. Maklnson's body was found In the ruins of Puckett's burning home September 3 last. The defense contended that Puckett. on awakening In the night and finding his house aflame and teeing a woman leaving, had hurriedly fired at her. not knowing tho woman was his mother. Tho state charged that Puckett deliberately murdered his mother, and quarreled with her after Bhe had filed suit to recover an eighty-acre- farm sho had deeded to him. |