Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-12
MANSLAUGHTER IS VERDICT
 OF JURY
(From Thursdays Daily.) Manslaughter!

Manslaughter!
 After an involved prosecution and an intricate defense, legal battles ot a most interesting character and argu- ments that were keen dissections ot the evidence, the jury trying Juan Apodaca and Felix Griego for killing Manuel Gonzales, deliberated three hours and returned a verdict of man slaughter.
 There was none of that breathless audience in the courtroom that had heard and hung on every word ot the case during the past four days when the result of the trial was an nounced Attorneys for the defend ants gave notice they would move for new trial Judge Sweeney made no announcement except that he would impose sentence later.
 A Bloody Case. .-....
 From many angles, the Griego- Apodaca case was one of the most in teresting that has ever been beard here. It followed the discovery on January ?, of the savagely mutilated body of Manuel Gonzales, bootleg ger and red light hanger on, in a wood shed in rear of the premises at BOA South Granite street, occupied at that time by a notorious woman named Nellie Campbell tor Stewart9 The defendants were privates in the medical detachment at Whipple Bar racks. They now face maximum pris- on sentences of 10 years apiece.
 Ii is thought likely that the jury overlooked the bestial cruelty of the l killing and, believing the story of the Campbell woman that Gonzales had rolled" Apodaca for about $l0O as he lay, stupid with drink, credited the defendants with that insane fury that is one of the clements in manslaught- CT as differentiated from the higher degrees of homicide, where premedit- ated maliciousness is present. It may also have been taken into account that Gonzales was neither useful nor an ornament to the community.
 The trial started on Friday, Feb ruary 2S, and occupied five full days of court. s... a.-... E., -..' ! The Arguments.
 Tie debate yesterday morning and l half the afternoon between H. w | Cornick of the defense and E. 5 Clark of the prosecution in the Con gales murder trial, fully justified the large audience Probably not since the more picturesque but less cul turcd days of the early courts, has case been so ably argued as was this involving the lives and liberty of two soldiers.
 The defense had asserted that this was it's first murder case, but, as tho Ibrosecution later pointed out, Mir . Cornicl went at his subject like master. not only of debate, but O just this sort of debate, which hai mo counterpart elsewhere than in tho , closing hours of homicide case. , On the other hand, MT. Clark con l cluded the actual trial with a trul! marvellous argument, marshaling hi ! facts and presenting them in clear cut and helpful way to the jury.
 Judge Sweeney began instructinl the jury at 2:4O, and in the course 0 r his remarks, gave a complete presenta
 ton of those rules on which jur, c must rely to weigh evidence and ar l rive at a verdict. The court rca' s rapidly from typed notes and tool . but half, an hour Then, the bailif escorted the jury to its room, tn { doors were closed, and the fate o
 Juan Apodaca and Felix Griego wa in the hands of twelve of their peers s The Defense
 Ii Waiter" Gonzales, the deceased go y what was coming to him, no matte n who administered the savage blow T that cracked his skull and split hi Il life blood over the floors of tnrc a rooms and left pools of it on the fro7 ; en ground of the back yard of Nel r lie Campbell's resort, according t Q Attorney Cornick. However, the fac
 remains, he pointed out, neither Ape = daca nor Griego had been successful g.. ly attacked, and their stories, tally n ing accurately, stood as a monumer
 of truth amid tangle of falsehood.
 He expressed great wonder ths
 the State with its wide resources, ha F not been able nor willing, apparentl,
 to bring to the stand a number C
 witnesses, whose names had bee 3 freely banded about in the testimon, Is Was it dangerous to have Lee Ovei Ii ton or Louis Barber or the fello' n roomers of the murdered man C