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Show JURY CONVICTS TAITHHEALER' LINDEN, Texas, May 6 U.P Paul Oakley, self-claimed 'faith . healer" was found guilty of murder mur-der today and given a 50-year penitentiary pen-itentiary sentence for the death at his hands, of a three-year old girl in a healing ceremony. The state asked the death penality. pen-ality. . The victim, Bernice Clayton, had been paralyzed from infancy. She died last December after Oakley, his brother Coy and her father Sherman Clayton, conducted a "laying-on-of-hands" over her on the floor of the Clayton's backwoods back-woods cabin near Linden. ' "The case went to the jury late yesterday after a score of witnesses witness-es had testified Oakley was insane. An equal number of state witnesses controverted this claim. Coy. Oakley and Clayton will he tried later. |