Davis Case Declared Mistrial Majority in the Last Two Minutes 7:25 Left
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
The Daily Skiff Vol. 77, No. S3 Tuesday, January 23,1979 te*Dturistian University nd the Rice holds off Frog comeback; grabs 59-56 win By Chuck Ault Rice's Larrv Burkholder, 6-10, t Clutch free throw shooting bs the 240, was a brick wall until fie was Rice Owls and numerous missed forced from the game at 14:59 with I field goals In the TCU Horned a severe ankle injury, according to Frogs combined to give the Owls .1 Rice Head Coach Mike Schuler. 59-56 win Monday night in That seemed to open things for a regionally-telev ised SWC TCU as it showed better movement basketball game at Daniel Meyer and it soon led for the first time, 14- Coliseum. 1 1, with 9:36 left. Mark Nickens hit I The Horned Frogs made a late a 25-loolcr from the top of the key charge tieing the game 52-52 with to make it 16-13, but Rice stormed 2:36 remaining, but Rice followed back to a 21-16 lead with 6:24 with a three -point play and the remaining, Owls held on to win their sixth Offensively, Frogs appeared as if game of the year. High scorer for Ihev were reacting to the game the game was Rice's Elbert Dardin instead ol taking charge. Rice led with 19. 29-21 at the half. Contrary to the final score, the TCU came out in the second hall Frogs were never in the contest, looking like a different team. Steve Scales, who led the Frogs with 18 points, scored the first basket on a MORF, SWC SCORES. PACK 4 last break lav up. bringing most of the 4,188 (2.23 1 paid) to their feet. with the exception of a brief The two teams traded baskets but Mice slowly built up a 12-point moment late in the second_Jialf. Mill photo In Chuck Aeilt Only equally poor shooting from lead-its biggest-37-25 with 15:50 the field by Rice prevented them left iii the game. But it still could not Grace and beauty from blowing TCU off the floor. put the game awav, as TCU fought The beauty of dance gymnastics is shown by one the Center Saturday night. This girl moved the ball all over her TCU shot 34 percent from the back to within eight, 41-33 at Held. Rice 39 percent. Rice made 12 1 1:47. Two steals by Jim Huncl and members of the 1978-79 USSR National Gymnastics team body while she went through various routines and never of 19 free throws in the second hall two lice throws by Ty Thompson during an exhibition at the Tarrant County Convention dropped it. Additional photo on page three. to deny the Frogs a come—from— were the keys in that sequence. behind victory, but the poor field TCU went into a tough man-to shooting is what did in TCU. man defense with Nickens forcing a Considering TCU made nine of I 1 turnover and Hund hitting a 2- free throws in the second half —the pomtcr to cut the lead to 46-42 with Davis case declared mistrial majority in the last two minutes 7:25 left. Thompson hit a one-arid- the lack of field goals hurt. one to make it 49-46 with Five HOUSTON (AP) - Millionaire Cullen has gone through the last few Speaking for the defense, Dallas this a win lor the prosecution. The) The conference win was Rice's minutes left, but Rice hit three defendant Cullen Davis posted I class'' attorney Phil Burleson said: proved beyond a shadow ol a doubt second in a row on the road. It is 3-4 straight frcoturows to up the lead to quickly ordered $30,000 bond Prosecutors s,ci,| this would try "It's obvious that tlie juryldld not that hi' is guilts 1 don't think a in SWC play and 6-11 overall. TCU 52-46. Monday and left the courtroom Davis again. believe David Metiers and his Ins pel son can be loo dramatic in idropped to 0-5 and 5-10. The frogs had one last chance to where Slate Judge Wallace Moore The jury was taken by van from aboul the tapes. i xpressing about what they're Wnv worked extremely well inside win when Ed Wineiger went to the granted a mistrial in his murder tin courthouse back to the motel "This jury ssas very consJientious pulling back on the streets " early in the game and jumped out to line lor a oiie-aiid-one. Trailing 55- eonspirae s case minutes before. where it was sequestered during the in its deliberations and sluiilil have Contacted .it the estranged an 8-4 lead. Rice outrebotinded 52, he missed the front end and Rice Judge' Wallace Moore released the deliberations, The jurors refused to been disc barged several class ago. couple's fortress—like $6 million TCU 30-18 in the first half; 47-44 rebounded and that was the game. sequestered jurors at 4:05 p.m. and repl) to questions about any aspect The) should not have been put mansion, the trail, blonde said of for the night. Offensive!) . the Progs indiated he would Free the Fort of the trial. through the torture of additional Judge Moore: "1 admire him. He were unsuccessful going inside to Hund added a meaningless basket Worth oil beii after .i speech bond "But they underesl te the deliberations since the) Were Inmg kept his cool and his dignity and center Larrv Frevert. at the buzzer. hearing. seriousness with which we view our I loin early on. important, hi' controlled his f & The end came in the 13th week of responsibility. And if they're "II the state- is serious about own courtroom." the marathon murder couspirir, counting on the state abdicating retrying tins ease, we'll tee it up Judge Moore asked jury foreman Fake train disaster trial after six days of deliberations that responsibility ami not seeking a again alter we clear out our other Mars Cuter "Do sou Feel sou could failed to break an 8—4 juror im- retrial, they're in for an unpleasant dockets arrive at a verdict with further passe. surprise. Davis ssas accused of plotting the liseussinl'isy" to be held Feb. 15 The climax came on an ironic "This has clone nothing to shake murder of his divorce judge and sic iiuhs idn.il opionion is that note. The two victims ol a 1976 my faith in the integrity ol the others, none e>! whom were e\ei sse could nisei reach a unanimous verdict." Mrs. Carter, 47. a medical By Troy McKelroy "mix-master" highway interchange shooting spree at the Davis mansion slate's case Tlies mas have worn killed. see rctars said. The other I 1 jurors Special to the Skiff on rail tracks just south of the were both born on Jan. 22. Das is down some members of the jury, but "I'd rathei base' a conviction," the) sine ,is hell aren't going to agreed and at that point Moore Nestled securely beneath 10th landmarkT-P Building. was tried for one of those murders in said Priscilla Davis. "But I'll settle weal us down." discharged the panel and declared Street in Fort Worth, between the Officials from the Civil Defense, Amarillo but was acquitted. lor a mistrial right now. I consider the mistrial. old and the new city halls, is the the Fort Worth Fire- Department, Neither side claimed victory, but Davis iias been behind bars five Civil Defense's new Emergence the Missouri-Pacific Railway, and others viewed the hung jury as a months, dating back to his Fort Operations Center. The E.O.G., as it the Department of Public Safety met stunning triumph for Davis and 111<- Candidacy announcement Worth arrest last Aug. 20. is called, resembles a buried Pen- at Otv Hall yesterdaj to discuss crack defense team headed by The industrial czar spent 15 tagon Command Post with it's plans for the operation. Richard "Raceheirsc'.t'laAiies. months in jail prior to his 1977 various booths, communications After initially determining the The jury sent MdQCfr a note at from Connolly expected acquittal iri the shooting death of his hook-ups and ominous-looking disaster site, the various 3:45 p.m., saying they were 1 DALLAS (AP) John Connalh . > i lie at that time, stepdaughter Andrea Wilborn. glass-walled control room. representatives spent much of the "hopelessly deadlocked" and "it who serseel as Texas governor ill \ I lonnall) S name was bandied Today, the center is dark and time deciding on exactly what type would serve no purpose to Andrea. 12. was one of two Navy secret.u\ as a Democrat, - about as a possible compromise /acant. But at precisely 9:46 a.m. of hazardous materials would be deliberate any further." person! slam in a bloods 1976 expected to announce Wednetdas candidate in 1976, when Gerald Feb.' 15 the room will be bustling involved. Liquid propane and "It is wonderful. I am glad to be, shooting spree at the secluded $6 that he is ,i candidate for the lad diu\ Ronald Reagan battled tor with activity. At that moment ,i chlorine were agreed upon as being out," said Davis, after five months million Das is mansion on Fort Republic an nomination lor the Republican nomination won by tornado will veer into a train loaded the most likely to be transported at and two days lin confinement, Worth's soutbgssest side.