Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-03-21 | Page 22 | Twenty Years is Coopers' Sentence

TWENTY YEARS IS COOPERS COOPERS' Slayers Slayer's of E. E W. W Carmack Are Found Guilty and Punishment Punishment Punish Punish- ment Fixed I I Nashville Nash Tenn March 20 On On the sixtieth day aft after r the trial of Colonel I Duncan Cooper Robin Hobin J. J Cooper and John D. D Sharp charged with the murder murder murder mur mur- der of E. E W V r Carmack the Jury thIs morning brought In a verdict of guilty of ot murder In lii the second degree against the two Coo Coopers pent and fixed the punishment at twenty years Imprisonment Imprison Imprison- ment mont In the state penitentiary John D. D Sharp was urns acquitted of oC nil all complicity the da day before The Jury was out so ent seventy hours and twelve minutes from the time It retired retiree Wednesday morning until the verdict verdic t was rendered Tho The verdict closed th the greatest st longest ani anti and most widely discussed discussed dis dis- cussed trial In tho the history of ot Tennes Tennes- seo see Notice was wag Immediately given of a written motion for or a n new trial Pending the motion for a new trial motion ns entered for ball bail for th the e defendants Bond In the sum sum of or 25 25 each was fixed by Judge Hart presented t to t th time the attorney general anthe ant an and d the bonds arranged