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Show CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER klahoan's Code of "a Life for a Love" to Bring 10-Year Term. ,i POCATELLO, IDAHO, Nov. 19 (UP) Chillies L. Hawkins has been convicted of manslaughter by the western jury which considered consid-ered his plea that there is an "unwritten "un-written law'1 protecting a man's home. , "A life for a love" was Hawkins strange code, and today he faced the prospect of spending perhaps the next ten years of his life in prison for killing W. H. Baron on the night of July 7. The accusation against Hawkins, 11-ycar-old Boise barber, was fjr,( degree murder, but the jury in jts verdict changed the charge to ono of voluntary manslaughter. Hawkins contended at his tiiul ' that Barron, a Linotype operator had stolen the affections of Mrs Hawkins, waitress, who, after the slaying, secured a divorce. 10 Years Maximum Under the jury's determination the maximum punishment that etui be imposed on Hawkins whon he stands before Judge Jay Downing probably early in December, is ten years imprisonment. The stubbornly-fought trial (irPW f to a close after five days at 6 p. ni Saturday, and the jury retired The verdict was returned . Sunday This session of court was schod- ' tiled to close a week from tomorrow but the protracted murder trial has delayed the prospects of (iC final day until sometime early next month, and at that time Hawkins ' will learn his fate. ; ' |