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Show M'NAIR SENTENCED TO FIFTEEN YEARS W. O. McNair, convicted of murder In , the second degree for the killing of Edward Ed-ward T. Williams, was sentenced by .Judge J. Louis Brown of the Third district dis-trict court yesterday to serve fifteen years in the estate prison at hard labor. The sentence was Imposed after a motion for a new trial had been denied. Attorney O. W. Carlson, counsel for the i defense, -said that the case will be ;ip-! ;ip-! pealed to the supreme court. Judge i Brown, in passing sentence, explained that some evidence of provocation brought out in the trial occasioned the leniency, of the sentence. |