The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-08-22
TUTTLE GETS 25 YEARS
FOR THE MURDER OF POLICE
MAN VICKERS.

The Prisoner Did Not Like the Yer
dict-Thought he Struck Police
man Hasten-Colonei Boyd's
Specch-Judge's Sentence.
Arthur Tuttle was brought into
Court last Thursday in pursuance
with instructions given by Judge
Brown at the close of the morning ses-
sion.
The Judge announced that he would
hear anything to be said by counsel,
whereupon Capt. r. B. Glenn, of
counsel for State, asked that Jailor
Ziglar and Deputy Sheriff Martin be
examined to show who Tuttle thought
he struck.
Jailor Ziglar, being sworn said that
when Tuttle was being taken back to
jail after the jury had rendered their
verdict, Mr.. Martin asked him how
didn't like it and he asked Martin
what he thought of it and Martin
said he thought it was light. Tuttle
remarked that they didn't put the
officer on the stand that he struck.
Said he struck Hasten.
In response to inquiry, Jailor Ziglar
explained that Hasten was the officer
acquitted Of the murder of Arthur
Tuttle's brother.
Col. J. E. Boyd then addressed the
Court. He felt that his client had
a fair trial. No fault to find Of the
jury, except that he felt they went
one degree further than they should
have done. He thought that if
verdict should be given the State it
should have been for manslaughter.
Nevertheless, counsel for prisoner had
decided to abide by the verdict with
out taking further steps. Col. Boyd
peal to the Court to temper justice
with mercy.
At the conclusion OF Col. Royd's re-
marks, the Court addressed the pris-
oner as follows:
"The duty of pronouncing sentence
in any case is one of the most un
pleasant and solemn q judicial officer
has to perform. TO do duty 20 the
State and at the same time to be
mercifuI to the prisoner is sometimes
very hard to do, Had it not been for
the change in the law Of murder by
the act of 1898 this prisoner would, in
all probability, have gone to the gat-
lows instead OF the penitentiary. /
commended the jury fer thel: regard
for the change in tie law: for their
attentive consideration Of the fact
that the evidence of generalization
and deliberatiOn, now required to con-
stitute murder in the first degree, was
not very sGro3s i'll this case. AT the
same time, it appears to the Court
that the conduct of the prisoner
showed that he had very savage
heart. He not only attempted to con
ceal the pistol, but after he had
knocked Vickers down he shot him
twice while PROSTATE. The prisoner,
during that time, was, undoubtedly,
resisting the enforcement of the law.
He has been convicted of murder in
the second degree. and, in the opinion
of the Court, properly convicted.
"Having due regard for the rights
of the State, as well as for the rights
of the prisoner, taking into considera-
tion the gravity of the offense and his
youth, deem il my duty to sentence
him to the State prison, at hard
labor, for period Of twenty five years.
If you behave yourself and abide by
the rules and regulations of the State
prison you can reduce that sentence
to seventeen or eighteen years. That
is offered to you as premium for
good behavior. BY that time you will
be thirty-seven. You may then lead
a useful life. / trust at least you will
be more careful how you take human
lifen