Show woods brothers to Rec receive eivie sentence friday on second degree murder verdict can get from 10 years to life for foi slaying of lecoy lindquist bill and alonzo woods will stand before judge john L sevy friday november 19 at 10 am a tn in the sixth judicial court in richfield and be sentenced from 10 years to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the july gun slaying slaving of lacoy nolan lindquist after hearing the state establish the fact that the boys feloniously killed hilled lindquist on rich fields main inabin street and the defense admit the killing but call for justice for two boys who made a mistake the jury of 12 sevier county citizens brought back a verdict of murder in in the second degree saturday evening after eight hours deliberation during the four dayson days of selecting a jury and trial the court room was packed to overflowing through the whole case close members bembers of the lindquist family sat grimly on one row watching every move and vengefully hoping for a first degree verdict on the row immediately in in front the woods family appeared to be just plain folks chos boys had got in trouble at the defense table J vernon erickson sat between bill and alonzo chos usual calm and stoic attitude broke down only once late friday when the defense rested its case and bill woods bowed his head on folded arms and wept state stale establishes murder the prosecution called many witnesses to the stand and proved the fact that the woods boys had hitchhiked a ride nde with lacoy lindquist 21 a koosharem Koo sharem naval veteran just north of salina that at a point a few miles west of salina the woods boys took over possession of the car at gun point arid and placed young lindquist in the back seat and that the brothers said we had talked of taking the next car the state further showed that when they reached richfield lindquist tried to regain possession sion of the car and in the scuffle lindquist was shot and the boys fled to the west hills with marshall ab hopkins and earl anderson in close pursuit members of the posse who made the actual capture a few hours later testified and explained how biu bill woods the younger of the brothers came out of the bushes with a 32 calibre pistol in in his belt and how the boys had buried the second gun in the mud of the canal bank the state through ballistics expert rogers chief of the criminal investigation of the salt lake police department part ment established the fact that the shot that ailed lindquist was fired from the gun that bill woods had in in his possession when apprehended bill woods had admitted that he fired the fatal shot fatal shot not established just who fired the fatal shot was not definitely established conflicting testimony offered by wallace haycock an eye witness said that biu bill had left the car before the shot was fired defense shows character J vernon erickson the courts appointment for defense in the case asked only routine questions in cross examination and called members of the woods family to the stand to point out that the defendants were good boys norman woods a brother of the slayers and steel worker for kansas city his wife and continued on page 4 WOODS TRIAL continued from pagel father alonzo alonz woods sr now iii living ng in P phoenix ho denb told of biow how the mother had died in june af 0 1946 and after that the flie farn family fly of nixie nine children broke up they related that the father had gone to arizona and remarried and that bill and alonzo had lived with mr and mrs normin norman woods they pointed out under ericksone Erick sons questioning that at no time either eithe of the boys had had any record or been mixed up with the police that alonzo had been honorably discharged from the army after 3 years the only trouble they had was that bill woods when he left kansas donjune on june 8 was supposed to report to fort lawton washington tod and thus he was a deserter from the army he had the service with his fathers consent when he was seventeen final pleat pleas after a lengthy instruction to the jury by judge sevy coun county ty tt attorney 1 henry beg beal presented d the 6 states c case e too to thach the jury presente u r y with the theme 6 of f T thou a 1 t not 0 t KUL kill and called upon the jury to make aa a hird hard but high decision in i the e case enn aoi J vemon V n erickson in his defense plea told the jury to go by the judges instructions and pointed out places where he thought tho the case did not warrant the lint first degree murder verdict ho he dwelled on testimony that the boys had said they were sorry when they first came out of the bushes bashes and had told dick beutler on the way to jail that they fere were sorry sony passionately erickson told the jury that the boys mean to kill lindquist that it was just a mistake and in the scuffle the accident happened erickson said he believed bill woods when he said he did the shob shooting ting and I 1 that DIU bill avs was sorry his last remarks were do right bentli gentlemen e men all I 1 ask do I 1 right chats 1 in a the states final summary ferdinand e r din and erickson district attorney pointed out th atthe de bense was appealing to the tha sym pathy th y of the e jury u r y a and nd the h e only cou bit pei verdict d that t could 1 d be b e broughlin brough 0 u kh 0 tIn n was first degree murder he ha mentioned that when the boys 1 used forc to like ta kethe the car car it was burglary iid and when burglary 4 being committed sa as in this case and a person i is killed thep the state tate lays lay and ana the judges instruction call for murder in the first degree |