OCR Text |
Show REHEARINGS ! FOR ALLENS Petition for New Trial Filed in the Virginia Court of Appeals. Richmond. Va., Jan. 10 A petition for B rehearing by the county court of Wytbevllle, Va., was filed today !n the court of appeals of Virginia by the counsel 'or Floyd and Claude Allen, Al-len, sentenced to b electrocuted Jan-j uary IS for the murder of court off I cial6 of Hillsvllle The petition was based on affidavits of Alph Thomas, who States that Sheriff Foster of Hillsvllle, Hills-vllle, had asked him to kill Floyd Allen, and of C W McMillan, who states that Foster told him he expected expect-ed to kill Floyd and Sldna Allen. Other Oth-er affidavits state that there was bad blood between the court and the Aliens Al-iens The court refused to hear oral argument. |