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Show Condemned Men Receive Stay of Execution; Defense Attorney Denies Newspaper Report Execution at the Utah state prison of the two condemned ' slayers of Howard W. Manzione, Beaver, will not take place today to-day due to the notice of appeal which was filed by the defense attorneys last Thursday in the Fifth Judicial District Court at Pa rowan. Defense attorneys Orville Isom and Patrick Fenton, both of Cedar Ce-dar City, filed a certificate of probable cause of appeal and a notice of appeal with Judge Will L. Hoyt. The certificate was signed by the judge and automatically auto-matically stays the execution until un-til the State Supreme Court has heard the appeal. In a statement made to this paper today, Attorney Isom said, "Contrary to reports in a northern paper of the 'amazing' discovery that the condemned men have not been notified that they would not be executed on February 16, they (the condemned men) fully understood, and were advised by letter from me the day after the appeal was taken. "Incidentally", attorney Isom continued, "the execution of people peo-ple is probably the crudest and most drastic thing we do as a civilized society, and if that is the case, every legal remedy should be first exhausted and we as court-appointed attorneys owe the duty to see that this right is not abridged." It may be several months before be-fore the Supreme Court reaches a decision in the case, and the stay of execution will be in effect ef-fect until the court acts. A previous pre-vious appeal by the defense attorneys at-torneys for a re-trial was denied by the District court. The slayers, Vern Alfred Braasch, 24, Waterloo, Iowa, and Melvin LeRoy Sullivan, 21, Kan-sas Kan-sas City Mo., were to have faced a firing squad today for the slaying slay-ing last October of the 21-year-old Beaver service station attendant. at-tendant. The crime was committed commit-ted in Beaver, but was tried in Iron county due to difficulties in obtaining a jury in Beaver. Iron county sheriff Arthur Nelson had been ordered by the court to carry out the execution. |