Show G W HANCOCK SENTENCED in the district court at provo AL april aril george W hancock was waa bated called for sentence on a conviction of murder in the second degree arthur brown his bis counsel made a motion for a new trial he said that improper testimony had been admitted in the ease case and the court had erred in charging th the jury eJury had the defendant been other than a mormon thip th case would never have come up in court and the jury would never have brought in the verdict which they did in 1858 the country was under martial law and was swarming with outlaws it is in time that tills stain which has hung over this territory should be removed t is not just that this people should suffer under these woe false charges the prosecution in this caw case nas has worked assiduously to drag this question into the ease case no grand jury would have hate indicted so BO prose autor would have prosecuted and no petit J jury ary would have listened to such testimony had it not been for this conflict of creeds mr E vans made a brief statement denying the allegations of mr brown and the court overruled the motion mr brown moved for an arrest of judgment on the grounds that the law under which this caw case had been tried had been repealed etc mo tion overruled mr hancock coming forward to receive sentence remarked to the court that if ever a man was inno cent he was judge blackburn said he had had a fair trial and the jury had returned a verdict of murder in the second degree in consideration of his advanced age and past life the judge said the sentence would be as biow low as possible under the law and ordered that mr hancock be imprisoned in the penitentiary for ten years mr hancock you are sentencing an innocent man ball pending an appeal to the supreme court was fixed aed and given |