Weekly journal-miner., 1918-07-10
STEPHENS TRIAL MAY GO OVER UNTIL AUG. 1
INABILITY OF COUNS TO SECURE REQUIRED NUMBER OF JURORS IS LIKELY TO CAUSE POST PONEMENT OF ACTION.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

i Out of 3S prospective jurymen
 examined yesterday during the open ! ing session of the trial of the case of State vs. Harry Earl Stephens on a murder charge, only 13 qualified jurors were selected and in all pro- bability the case will be continued
 until some date in the neighborhood of August lst in order to allow the Ecourt to call in two more venires of i jurymen. Before a murder case can
 so to trial, 29 qualified jurymen must
 be in the box From this number
 the defense is allowed to strike 10 and the State can eliminate seven, leaving the regulation dozen to try :. the case. In view of the fact that
 the venirc of 54 which reported yes terday was practically used up in an effort to select the 2o men who were
 acceptable to each side, Judge Sweeney yesterday evening held
 slight hope that the jury could be
 completed from out of the list of names called at the opening session.
 If this is the case, all of the l3 who qualified yesterday will be released
 and their names will be added to the next panel examined and all of yes
 terday's work will have to be done
 over.
 Two more calls will be made, and
 in view of the fact that at least l0i
 days are required to get action from a
 call of this sort, 1t will be seen that
 the case cannot possibly come up
 before about the first day of the conn ing month A call for another venire will probably be issued today. There Will be 75 names in the list, but the court does not hope to get more than about 30 from the list As soon as the prospective jurors have reported in answer to this call, they will be told to report again on the date upon which the second panel is to come in, and these two vcnires, combined with the eligibles now in court, will be ! punched in an effort to get the requi- site 29 men for the beginning of the trial.
 The men who qualified at yester- days session and who proved to be acceptable to both the State and the defense were the following-named: IT. T. Smith, A. J. Humberth, N. A. Vyne, w. H. Archdeacon, G. E. Lady, ]. E. Weber, Charles Travis, Albert George w. Taylor, J. s. Pratt, w. A. Hill, Nathan Levy and George Davis. Owing to the fact that there was still a remote possi- bility that out of the sixteen jurors who had not yet been examined, the necessary additional members could be found, the group of 29 men who the list of those who had been accepted and those who had not yet been examined. were kept in charge of the bailiff last night. But as soon as one man is disqualified at this mornings session, the whole leal will be declared off, and new start taken.
 A great deal of care was exercised yesterday by the respective counsels n the matter of selecting the pros oective jurors. The majority of those examined admitted that fact that they: lad heard and read all of the details 1f the killing, and had formed and opinions regarding the at \; air. Two men told the attorneys hat they had not read any newspa- ; per accounts of the shooting, while mother one said that he had read :, ots about the case in the Prescott { papers. he did not believe anything hat he read in these publications, |, md that consequently his mind was till open to conviction.
 Court officials, believe that the trial If the case. in which two defendants i re involved, will occupy the greater art of three weeks. It is understood | hat the defense has summoned more Y han 60 character witnesses who will 3 ,e put on the stand in an effort to a rove that the character of Harry | stephens and his father, Joe, was l .ood prior to the shooting of Miller.
 The defendants are represented by )'Sullivan x Morgan and F. s. Clark acting as special prosecutor to as-i ist County Attorney Haworth. O