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Show Court of Criminal Appeals Reverses Case of Texas IH Wife Murderer. AUSTIN. Tex., March 27. Th-M court of criminal appeals today re-t versed and remanded for a new trial the case of Harry J. Spanel. hotel jH proprietor, who was found guilty by a Coleman county jury and sentenced ta serve five years in tho penitentiary foe jjM the murder of Lieutenant Colonel M. C. JH BuUer. U. S. A., at Alpine, Tex, July;IM 20, 1916. 'fH The higher court reversed the trial ;)H court on a plea of having formed aH jeopardy. The defense contends that IH Spanel, having been acquitted of ai charge of killing his own wife, could not legally bo convicted for having? IH killed Butler, since the double killing "was a continuous affair." 1 Mrs. Spanell and Colonel Butler wera shot and killed in Spanell's automo-t . bile at Alpine. Spanell gavo himself JH up after the shooting. He was tried IM on a charge of killing Mrs. Spanell in January, 1917, and was acquitted, but lH at a later trial he was convicted oC jH killing Colonel Butler. jl |