Clay County AlArchives News.....Murders trials of Grover Ingram & W.J. Smith July 1910
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Lineville Headlight July 1910
The jury in the case of the State vs Grover Ingram, charged with killing Ezra 
Latham, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second-degree last 
Saturday morning in the County Court of Clay. The jury fixed the punishment at 
ten years in the penitentiary. The difficulty which resulted in the death of 
Latham occurred near Delta last winter. After being shot the deceased lingered 
between life and death for, seventy-five days after his spine had been severed 
by the missile which finally proved fatal. The defendant set up a plea of self-
defense. 
When the case of the State vs W. Joe Smith was called in court last Saturday 
morning, the defendant failed to appear in court and a forfeiture was taken 
against him and his bondsmen. The defendant had been seen at court and in this 
community until two or three days prior to the day his case was called for 
trial. About three years ago the defendant shot and killed W. J. Lumpkin, his 
father-in-law, in a dispute over a dog. The defendant had been tried at a prior 
term of court and was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and his 
sentence fixed at five years in the penitentiary, but his case was reversed by 
the Supreme Court.

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