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Show STATE RESTS IN LIVINGSTON TRIAL It Is Expected Murder Case May Go to Jury Not Later Than Tomorrow Tomor-row Afternoon. i Except for tlte testimony of one witness wit-ness to be examined this moniinir, the state presented all its eudence yesterday yester-day in the case of Clarence Livingston, charged with murder in the second degree de-gree for the killing of Arthur T. Hyde last Christmas niL'lit, and rested. It ie expected that the case may go to the jury not later than Wednesday afternoon. Before evidence-taking was bgun yesterday yes-terday morning, counsel for the defense offered a motion against submission of any evidence, the court overruling it. This completed the record for appeal on the ground maintained by the defense at the time of its motion to quash information, informa-tion, which was that the defend.mt had been improperly bound over to the district dis-trict court. PJxamlnation of the state's witnesses by defendant's counsel. Attorneys P. C. xf-bourow xf-bourow and Jacob Kva ns, evidence 1 an effort to establish that only one bullet hit the youth, entering under a sh.ouM.-r blade and emeruinij from the throat Just a litUe to the rli?ht of the collar button. As previously, at the preliminary hearing, David O. Johnson, who v,-. i s steward at the policv emergency h-s-pltal at the time of the killing, testified that he removed a bullet from the wound in the throat, but insisted that It came away "butt first." I In said that he removed re-moved the bullet as the body lay In the basement of the publlr M.fety bulliiri-: after being laid there when it was found i that the boy had died on the way from the Dlvin:rston residence to the emergency emer-gency hospital. A number of others gave testimony. The Jurors before whom the raw Is be. Ing tried in Judge W. 1 1. p.rftmel's di- , vision or the Third district rourt are C. ; H. Sutton. William S. Turner. Benjamin V. Fitzgerald. G. Alfred Alder. P. J. Tenber, Anhlev D. Cleveland. Genr;:e Williams. Marcellns Sebeker, I av!d K. Heaps. Milton Illdges, Waiter J. Kdgar and John U Kelly. 1 |