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have frequently visited the Home.
this session will be holden. Refresh
ments will be served rs usual,
JURY SAYS LOVING WAS
.'i! INSANE A AHH AGQUITS HIM
CONTINUED from First Pagc.)

When any ono invades our homes
they strike society and the body pol
tiles the dealicst blow You all
know how love for your wife and
how the smile OF daughter can
bring out from your nature the best
there is in it,
My heart and my mind tell me
gentlemen of the jury how YOU feel.
believe that when the foreman asks
you To hold up your hands if you be-
llcve the prisoner not guilty that ev-
cry hand will go up and that your
act will be according to your CON
scicitious opinion. When Christ de-
parted lis life his last words were
Father. forgive them they know not
what they do"
Bouldin Made Strong Ploa.
commonwealth Attorney Bouldin.
OF Halifax county. in the closing all
dress ridiculed the insanity plea call
ing attention to Judge Loving's de-
liberation before and at the time of
The tragedy. He declared the evil
dcncc showed that the murder was
an act of dcliberation and that Il
was committed after Judge Loving
had ample time to reflect and realize
fully the consequences.
in this case and all Others" he
declared in conclusion, "the guilty
and the innocent suffer alike. but
courts cannot measure their verdicts
by sympathy. Judge Loving is not
The only stricken household
Mr.. Bouldin spoke for an hour and
three quarters. Judge Barksdale
then placed in his instructions to
the jury a section which had been
objected 10 by the defense and was
not included In tho instructions as
read yesterday. This instruction
contained the statement "the unwrit-
ten law has no recognition in this
court"
The defense contcndcd that this
was unnecessary, but 1t was insert
ed.
The jury then retired and in Az
minutes returned with verdict OF
mot guilty."
For the first time during the trial
the women relatives of young Estes
were in the court room.
There Will Be No Civil Suit.
John p. Swanson, a brother-in- law
Of Theodore Estes was killed, issued
the following statement tonight:
"Thc statement in the press today
that NJ. *. Estes would qualify as an
administrator of Theodore Estes: do
ceased. and enter suit against Judge
Loving is mistake. Neither Mr..
Estes nor any member of the family
ever contemplated suit against
Judge Loving. We had hoped that
the court would admit the evidence
of the commonwealth as offered by
MIR Harmon which would have vindi-
Gated Theodore Estes of the charge
of assault ana established the fact
mat no assault was committed"
There Was Mo Assault.
Tho following statement was given
Loving: Within half an hour after
the rendition of the verdict by the
jury and the adjournment of court
counsel for Judge Loving were called
on by two of the jury who stated they
had been appointed n committee rep.
rcsenting the entire jury to convey
to Judge Loving and his wife and
daughter the information that while
they believed that Miss Loving's
sialcmcns on the witness stand of
what she had told her father was n
true account of what she had com
municated 10 him yet not for n mo-
ment dir they entertain an opinion
that any actual assault had been
committed by the deceased upon tire
Young lady but on the contrary they
were all fully satisfied beyond all
doubt that no actual assault had
been committed. but that there had
been an attempted assault. Counsel
for Judge Loving upon being inter
viewed in this connection said:
THE conclusion Of the jury to the
effect that no assault was committed
was absolutely correct"
Judge Loving and his wife will re-
main here several days before re-
turning TO their home in Nelson coun-
ty, Miss Elizabeth Loving will leave
shortly for a visit to friends in a
distant state to escape the notorlty
Incident to the trial of her father.
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