The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-03
|MsKOWEN CONVICTED
is HELD IN THE PENITENTIARY
PENDING AN APPEAL.
FIVE BILLS OF EXCEPTION
But There Seems to Be Little Chance
of Setting Aside the Verdict-The
Attorneys for the Physician Will
Make Hard Fight.

| The New Orleans States Baton Rouge
special of May says: The State is
thoroughly satisfied with the verdict
rendered Saturday night against DR..
Emmett c. McKowen, whose trial for
the murder of E. K. Judson, lunatic
from Orleans was one of the notable
events of the present session of court in
East Baton Rouge parish. 1t is the best
that counsel for the prosecution expect
ed. There was never any serious dlspo-
sition to contend for the extreme pen
atty.
DIR. McKowen was transferred at
noon Sunday to the walls of the State
penitentiary, where he will be held pend
ing the exhausting of such legal rights
as are his under the statutes.
There are some five bills of exception
in the record upon which counsel for
McKowen will base their fight for a new
trial One of these is the admitting into
evidence the indictment now pending in
the United States Court against the doc
tor, another is against the jumper de
monstration conducted by Mr.. Wax,
and others are distributed through the
trial ON various points of law ON the in
depreciation of which counsel disagreed
with the judge.
If the verdict was blow to McKow-
en-, the East Feliciana doctor did not
show any signs of distress or shock. He
took the verdict with stoical indiffer-
ence, and walked back to his cell in the
parish jail without any comment.
In view of the hard legal battle that
was waged necessarily through the
length of the trial by resourceful and
adroit counsel employed to defend Nc
Kowen, the verdict is regarded in the
light of distinct victory for the attor-
neys who had charge of the prosecution
The prosecution was led by Col. l. D.
Wall of Clinton, whose argument Satur-
day afternoon proved to be an overpow-
ering appeal for the vindication of the
law. Associated with Colonel Wall was
District Attorney Hubert Wax of East
Baton Rouge, District Attorney Golson
of East Feliciana, Judge Charles Kill
bourne of Clinton and Mr. R. F. Walk
er of Clinton.
McKowen's defense was conducted
with mastery of circumstance and de
7 tai that made it as perfect as legal in
genuity could accomplish. Until Nc
Kowen himself took the stand the de
Tense was all to the good. It had met
| tevery tack from the opposition and had
thrown around every detail presented by
the State cloud of suspicion, prejudice
and doubt. In his preposterous state
ment to the jury, however, DIR. McKow-
en-, belligerent in attitude and defiant to
a perceptible degree, in single hour
tore down the whole breastworks of the
defense In placing McKowen on the
stand the defense accepted the best OF
| its alternatives Had he not been placed
| in the chair the effect on the jury would
have been against him. It was plain to
those who heard McKowen that his
story was nothing more than concoc-
tion, made up partly of the truth and
the remainder patched up from what he
heard the State witnesses testify to.
No finer presentation of the defense
could have been prepared than tha
which DR. McKowen has Judge S. Nc
Lawroson of St. Francisviile, Judgt
Beale and Judge Favrot and E. E. Wal
of Baton Rouge to thank for. I'm
pressed with McKowen's innocence, anc
basing their fight for his life on tn,
principe that he was the victim of re
nlarllable chain of circumstances tha
were fostered and colored by terri
| prejudice, these able counse1lors Tough
for him over every inch of the forty
| seven miles that he drove with the bod.
lof Judson on the night of October II.
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