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Show - Uxliui' U J'ul 1 u L LI4-J-u- ; A request without precedent in the criminal annals of the State was made .to J udge George " G. Armstrong at Coalville yesterday. . ; . 7 ., f:- : ;'. : ., ' - " After a trjal lasting two days, the jury in the case of the State against' J. K Burk charged with. robbery, returned re-turned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner waived the time for sentence and was asked by the court If he had anything any-thing to say ,before sentence was passed. . .' " : : Burk arose and asked that the couri sentence him to life imprisonment. ,. . v : ' : - Judge Armstrong informed Burk that he could not grant his request. . : . - Burk then asked that he be sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment. : . ".-,. :'; . -, ; The court informed him that the law only, allowed a . sentence of ten years for the offense of which he had been convicted. The court obliged Burk by giving him the limit. |