Show moab charles davenport now on trial THE MURDER OF WOO m Dl ingers sentence F K morris will appeal J J booths case set bobert shaw was found guilty of adultery by the jury saturday evening when the first district court opened this morning J H clinger who had previously pleaded guilty to aa indictment charging unlawful cohabitation cama forward for sentence ha aras sentenced to pay a fine of and costs D houtz at lorney for air clinger stated that mr clager had for some time in the past obeyed the law and would do no in the future the time for alma hague was by agreement of counsel continued till friday the ii the caad of valentine L thomas YB F K morns trustee came up to settle disagreement ou motion for a new trial the verdict was in favor of mr thomas and mr morna moved for a new trial some of the statements wars not agreed upon between mr kellogg attorney lor aad mr dickson attorney for defendant after sn agreement was arrived at by the aid of the court the motion for a new trial was made and overruled twenty daya stay to prepare exceptions on appeal were granted the case of the people va J J booth forgery was set for the agh the case of alie people vs chaa indicted for murder in the first degree was called for trial As attorney T urman pr executed and S A king and E A wilson defended davenport is charged with killing john woods on the ath of january at moab grand county the two men bad some dm agreement at a aaroon which is said to have started through woods accusing davenport ot stealing 20 tha result of this quarrel wa a fight in which woods was victorious victori oua until davenport drew a gun and shot woods through the dody billian bil liin him almost instantly the coroners jury returned a of wilful murder davenport 13 forty yeara of age and was born in texas he had not bean in moab long at the time of the tragedy up till 1 when the noon recess waa taken the jury was not paneled em six jurors were excused for ca ae out of the six biye were excused for having conscientious ecru plea against the death penalty the prosecution had made no peremptory charlenas cha llenas and the defense had exercised seven it will doubtless be nace seary to iesue a special venire as there were only three aurora of the pannel for the term who bad not been examined |