Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-09-29
MRS. LYNCH and
SON ARE GIVEN
ANOTHER CHANCE
Supeme Court Reverses and
Remands Sensational Muir
der Case.
AFFIRMATION IN
CASE OF WHITLEY
Youth Who Killed Rival for Hand OF
Girl Must Serve TWcnty-One
YparS-ThOS. Hunt, II, to
Pen for Assault.

Little Rock, Sept. 2S.-Eight criml-
nal cases were affirmed and two were
reversed in decisions handed down by
the supreme court today. me case
of Robert Spivey and his mother, Mrs.
Lille D. Lynch, sentenced to the penl-
tertiary for the alleged killing OF MIS-.
l.ynch's husband, r. c. Lynch, was
reversed and remanded to the Monroe
circuit court for retrial. The case
caused a sensation throughout the
state when on trial. Each was SEN
tence dto five years.
An interesting civil case, that OF
Mrs. Mary F. Corney against DR.. ROD
ert F. Corney, her former husband,
was affirmed. The case was Appeared
from the Crawford chancery court,
though both principals now are resi-
dents OF Little Rock. DIR. Gorney OBJ
tanned divorce and the case was tax
en- the supreme court, which affirmed
the verdict. Later Mrs. Corney filed
a motion to have the decree vacated.
The Crawford court refused the mo-
ton and another appeal was taken to
the supreme court. The supreme court
today affirmed the action OF the low
err tribunal in refusing the motion.
DR.. Corney since the divorce proceed
ings has remarked. He is now prac-
ticing medicine in Little Rock.
Spiyey Case Sensational.
The Spivey murder case was replete
with conflicting evidence. Spivey IS
son of Mrs. Lynch by former nus
band, and, it is said, was on unfriend-
ly terms with his stepfather, Lynch.
After her marriage to Lynch Mrs.
Lynch found married life unpleasant
and a suit for divorce was pending
, when Lynch was killed.
Lynch was entering the home OF
Mrs. Lynch through a window in her
bedroom when he was shot and killed
instantly by Spivey Two loaos OF
"buckshot" entered his breast. Ac-
cording to the testimony a mask, dirk
and a loaded revolver were on ar
about his person after he was killed.
| Boss Scott, charged with murder,
was refused bail by the Monroe cir
cult court He appealed to the SUI
preme court, which reversed the low
: er court and fixed his bail at $4,000
subject to the approval OF the lower
court officials in reducing or enlarg-
+, ing it.
1 Monk Cox, convicted in the Greene
circuit court of assault with intent to
kill. must serve twenty-one years in
the penitentiary, according to the de-
cision of the supreme court, which az
firmed the verdict of the lower court
He was convicted of having assaulted
Ben Bowlin.
Whitley Must Serve Time.
Jesse Whitley, who killed his riva
for the hand of Miss Bessie Baty ant
who was convicted in the Prairie cir
cult court of murder and sentenced tt
serve twenty-One years in the penl
tertiary, also must serve his sentence
The verdict was today affirmed.
Aged Man Assaulter.
Thomas Hunt, IA years old, whit
4 was convicted and sentenced to thu
|penitentiary from Paragould on /;
charge of assault, must serve the sen
tence. The lower courts decision
sentencing Hunt was affirmed. De
spite his plea of innocence and his ad
vanced years he was convicted.
Pleads War for Extension.
In the civil suit of Zeph O'Brien an,
lC. H. Hawkins vs.. j. T. and M. NJ
Afford a judgment for 5000 was at
firmed. The case was up on an ap
peal from the mississippi circui
court and was brought to recover OF
bond.
Probably the most unusual motion
for a continuance ever filed in the SUI
preme court was that Of D. L. KIM
who today asked thirty-d contin
uance in the case of Thomas L. Butte
vs.. D. l.. King. In his motion Mr.
King said elections, sickness, trou
BILE, European war and hard time'
make it very necessary that get Al
extension" The supreme court ex
TENDED the time thirty days.