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Show WRONG USE OF A WORD BY COURT : i Cleveland, O., May IS. Because of tho alleged wrongful use of one word In a Judge s charge of thirty-five pages, pag-es, tho Ohio supremo court yesterday ordered a new trial in the celebrated Holden murder case. Harry K. Holden was sentenced to life Imprisonment nineteen months (ago for ihe murder of Barney and Julius Jacobs, pawnbrokers He was accused ot having entered the Jacobs" store, asked to be shown a gun and ammunition and then shot both pawnbrokers pawn-brokers dead with their own weapon. His defense was insanity, and in his Sharge to the Jury, Judge Kennedy of I Ihe court of common pleas, said that it was not enough that the insanity of Holden was probable; it must bo proved by a preponderance of the evidence. evi-dence. The supreme court holds tho ! use of the word "probable" improper. I |