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Show Judge Censures Jury. LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Pec. 7. Circuit Judge Robert J. Peaf today censured a jury which found Arthur Carter, a rngro chauffeur, guilty of involuntary manslaughter. man-slaughter. Carter was driving an automobile auto-mobile which ran over and killed an eight-year-old. girl. "This verdict is an outrage," said Judge Lea to I he jurors. "A verdict of second-degree murder clearly would have been justified.. Some persons who drive autoniohiles think t hat whenever they honk their horns all pedestrians should climb trees and telegraph poles." |