Show PARED PEN 1 sinar of J 11 I 1 miller jr after eight fight montas ol 01 21 22 I 1 car ear sentence adward Wt cottrell trell who hol shot and killed joeeph 11 miller J jr of moab at Thomp thompsons sons in january 1024 1924 and who pleaded guilty to voluntary man laughter slaughter receiving a it recommendation for a sentence of two and we half ean ears in the state prison wa was paroled saturday by the tate state pardon card board cottrell had served only eight months of hn his sentence gen tence the tho pardon board issued the par ole after 0 k clay jay county attorney of carbon count made a statement to the board that he wa mas convinced thi the hooting shooting of oung miller as an accident cottrell was tried in carbon to which bich county he was granted a change of denue before the trial of the case on a first decree degree murder charge wa was completed coltrell Coi trell changed his plea ples of not guilty to one of guilt of manslaughter the shooting of joe miller ller m sult ed from a drunken brawl in the Thomp thompson sons pool hall engaged in bl by cottrell james warner and it att miller filler ejected the three ahr men from the room and shut the door cottrell drew his pun gun and fired back through the door one of the bullets youn lounz miller in the head lie ile died several hours hourn later cottrell was first tried at moab and in hil his defence to he denied shooting shoo into the building and maintained maintain oil that miller vas shot b warner who went ent back into the iol hall after the three men had been t evicted the first trial resulted in a R hung jur and the cne wa max ti transferred to carbon in the second eron fl trial cottrell changed his plea to guilt of manslaughter he ile received an indeterminate sentence Ren tence with recommendation of a maximum sentence if f two tn and one half years the time he was mas held heid in count county jail awni tine trial cottrell hn ened about eighteen month in n expiation of the crime of killing kil lint oune miller |