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Last week Jones went on trial again in Celina, Tenn. (pop. 1,228). Again, he denied even being in Tennessee on the night Lee's father was killed. This time prosecution witnesses placed Jones less than a quarter-mile away from the death scene only minutes before the accident. The shirtsleeved jurors needed less than two hours to bring in a verdict of involuntary manslaughter, fixed his sentence at a year and a day. "I'm very disappointed," protested Jones. Said Welby Lee: "Justice was done...
Last week Jones went on trial in Celina, Tenn. (pop. 1,228). Outside the tiny Clay County courthouse, where Judge Cordell Hull once sat, a bearded evangelist stood on the lawn shouting for sinners to repent. Inside, sweating from the heat of two potbellied stoves, a crowd of wide-eyed youngsters and tobacco-chewing old men listened intently as the D.A. thundered: "When you hit him, did he scream?" Said Jones: "I guess he did, but I wouldn't know because I didn...
...Celina, Ohio...