Show N New Legal Move Launched 1 To Halt Execution of Green GreenA A new move to save Delbert Green times sentenced Davis county killer from the firing tirIng squad was started Friday when a notice of appeal for a stay of execution was filed in Second dis die I court at Farmington Green is under sentence of death January 21 24 as the result of a triple slaying in Davis county January I 4 1930 The appeal v filed by Arthur Woolley attorney for Green Wool Wool- Icy went Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- to the supreme supreme su su- preme court to IF obtain the signature signa signa- 4 ture of a justice of the court to a of probable cause This It was explained ex cx- 3 is K ij sary for a stay of F. F execution because i the case since since- passage of sen sentence tence is out of of district court jurisdiction The appeal Is based on the denial de de- mat nial of District rI Judge Eugene Pratt last Novem- Novem x f ber of an arrest of judgment pend pending pend-j pend ing a sanity hear hearing y I ing and also his his' xo denial of an in- in j In-j 5 sanity a n I ty hearing asked by the slayers slayer's mother Mrs Lilly May 4 Alexander Judge Pratt in denying j the petition contended con con- con h J F tended the case was out of or his One Gree jurisdiction after judgment had been passed Mr Woolley in asking a justice of ot the supreme court to sign a certificate certificate of probable cause will show evidence backing his appeal Should the evidence in the opinion of ot the justice be sufficient to warrant an appeal he may mar sign the c cate If the certificate is not signed only a reprieve by the governor can halt the execution The justices had Mr Woolley's request under advisement advisement advisement ad ad- late Friday Green has been sentenced to death four times for the crime The first execution was halted when the supreme supreme su su- su preme court granted a 8 new trial After his second conviction n an appeal appeal ap ap- ap peal for a s new trial halted the execution ex ex- on and finally a reprieve was granted by Governor Blood pending straightening out of ot a leg legal l tangle over an Insanity appeal The slayer was WIlS sentenced by byI I Judge Pratt after the reprieve expired expired ex ex- to die before a firing iring squad January 24 I |