Show RELEASED AFTER LONG IMPRISONMENT I George Ceorge M. M Bates Is free at last lat In 1895 Bates was Indicted for killing John in county and the to- to following following fol fol- lowing year af after r Statehood he was tried by a Jury JUT of eight men and convicted of oC murder in the t e second decree dl ree Later In a r ca case t was as eld ld that vh hE re e a defendant w was was' charged with wih a arime crime rime before Statehood and tried tred after he hE Was entitled to the the sare same number of oC Jurors as If tried before the law went Into effect providing for tor only eight jurors In n ne all e except d t HP capital eases s and Bates was released He wa Immediately I es however and was tried dr by twelve men a and n again convicted He then a appealed II to the Supreme court and the matter is n now before beCore pending hadt w that tribunal Today the Board of Pardons took the mate matter up and decided that Bates Dates h had been sufficiently second punished as the sentence only cali cale for Cor one ne year in t the e eState State prison and he had served seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen ten months on the first fim sentence The e Judge who tried the case frt and others Jec rec- rec I hl bl paron |