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Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-01 | Page 9 | Murder Trial to Resume after Recess

Type issue
Date 1952-03-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Murder Trial to Resume after Recess
Type article
Date 1952-03-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 9
OCR Text Murder Trial The I To Resume I After Recess I PROVO Special The Special The firstI first- first degree murder trial of Belmont I Davis 24 Price recessed for the week end late Friday will continue continue continue con con- Monday l at 10 am a.m. in Fourth District Court with defense mony The state rested its case se apI approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap I proximately an hour before the recess with the reading by hy Duane A A. Frandsen Seventh District atI attorney at at- I torney to of a sig signed ed statement in which Davis admitted admitted admitted ad ad- k kicking i c k kin i n g old month Linda Kay Millar before the child died July 30 1951 Although Rex E. E Hansen Salt Lake City objected to entry of the confession on grounds that the defendants defendant's constitutional rights had been violated Judge William Villiam Stanley Dunford ruled that as an admission of fact it could be entered as evidence In the defense Mn Mr Hansen outlined outlined outlined out out- lined a plan to show that Davis was v irritable and upset because of financial and personal problems problems problems lems at the time of the alleged crime Ernest Edward Davis Jr father father father fa fa- fa- fa ther of the defendant said Davis' Davis personality had changed after he underwent an operation and returned returned returned re re- re- re turned home from Navy service Mrs 1 Glenda Davis the defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defend defend- ants ant's wife testified d that she and Davis agreed to say that the baby had been injured in a fall because we were frightened when it died
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