Payette County ID Archives News.....Levy Does Not Have to Hang. April 15, 1904
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Payette Independent April 15, 1904
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, April 15, 1904

LEVY DOES NOT HAvE TO HANG

Board of Pardons Commutes Sentence of Convicted Man to Life Imprisonment.

Boise Statesman:  George Levy will not die with the hangman’s rope about his 
neck.  By unanimous vote the state board of pardons, as the conclusion of the 
protracted session Monday night, determined to compute his sentence to life 
imprisonment.  The members of the board made a careful examination of the 
record and took into consideration the new evidence introduced for the 
defendant at the hearing on the application for clemency.  They concluded that 
a reasonable doubt as to the defendants guilt existed and determined to give 
Levy the benefit of the doubt.  

Without the intervention of the board Levy would have paid the death penalty on 
Friday next for one of the most brutal crimes that ever occurred in the history 
of Idaho.  The defendant was found guilty of the murder in this city on October 
3, 1901, of Davis Levy.  George Levy had threatened the life of Levy and this 
was a potent factor in his conviction supplemented by a strong chain of 
circumstantial evidence.  

The defendant was refused a new trial and the judgment of the district court 
was affirmed by the supreme court.  Chief Justice Sullivan and Justice 
Stockslager refusing to disturb the verdict while Justice Ailshbi dissented.  


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