Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-08 | Page 3 | Judge Sets Hearing on Slayer's Retrial

Judge Sets Hearing On Slayers Slayer's Retrial Third District Judge George A. A Faust Saturday ordered Angus Dewey Russell w who whose h 0 s e district court conviction on on a first degree murder murd r charge was upset by the state supreme court to appear in district court Tuesday at 10 a. a mas mas ni m. m as' as a result of the high courts court's order remanding the case back to district court for retrial The supreme supreme su su- su- su preme court discussion was partly based on jury instructions District Attorney Brigham E. E Roberts said he is undecided whether to accept an offer by defense defense defense de de- de- de council to have Russell enter entera I a plea of ot guilty to a second degree murder charge in the case Russell Russell Rus Rus- I sell seli had been convicted of ot slaying I his wife Anna January 3 1943 I after a quarrel He has been an I inmate of death row in Utah state prison since his conviction