Arizona republican., 1920-11-23
FATE IF BOY WHO. SHUT FATHER IS
 IN HANDS IF JURY
Evidence In Ava Patterson
 Case Ends Yesterday Aft ernoon-Jury, Failing At Early Verdict, Locked Up

After four hours of deliberation. the | jury in the case of the State against Ava Patterson. IS year old youth charged with murder in connection with the death of his invalid father, Frank J. Patterson, in October. 1919, announced at 9:SO o'clock last night that they had failed to reach a verdict. They were then taken to hotel for the night anN will resume their de- Alterations this morning The case went to the jury at 5:30 o'clock yes- terday afternoon.
 Six forms of verdict were given the jury by Judgs Stanford, as fellows: Not guilty, guilty of assault with a deadly weapon; guilty of nanslaugh- ter; guilty of murder in the second de- gree: and two verdicts of guilty of murder in the first degree. one bearing life sentence, and the other the death penalty. Just before o'clock last night the jury returned to the box and asked judge Stanford what the sen tences would be in case Of a verdict on the assault charge or the man slaughter charge. The judge declined ! to tell them what the sentence would be.
 The defense ended yesterday morning with the testimony of several witness es who testified to the turbulent. and violent character Of F. J. Patterson during his life. Mrs. Ada Stranhan sister of Ava Patterson, testified to many of the assaults that her mother and brother declared in their testi- money, the father had made on the son at various times during the past seven or eight years. She corrobo- rated their testimony in this respect. | Testimony Clashes
 I The state put on many witnesses 1T rebuttal who lived in the neighborhood of the Pattersons, north of town. They said that in all their dealings witt MT. Patterson they did not find hin violent and hard to get along with Leo Troutman testified he had secured a bottle of whisFey for Mir. Patterson prior to his death at the hospital ant said that Mir. Patterson did not dfinl any of the liquor before his death. Mrs Patterson and Ava Patterson had tes tified that MT. Patterson drank intox icating liquor and frequently wa drunk
 } The state contended that Ava Pat terson shot his father while the lat : ter was in the act of writing chec . for $250 with which to buy a new mo torcycIe. The defense was based O : self defense and contended that youn . Patterson shot because his father ha attacked him with a glass paper } weight and he feared for his life. Argument in the case was limite to one hour on each side. Guy P. Nev | itt for the defense argued that it wa impossible for the boy to have shot hi father while the latter was sitting at
 table. The wound he said, was in tn left shoulder and never could have bee inflicted from around the corner of
 door, as Mir. Patterson said his so shot him. Mir Nevitt said that be cause of the many years in which hi father had attacked him and the re citals told the boy by his mother of tn
 violent temper of the father, the Eo
 naturally was afraid and feared hl life when his father attempted to as
 sault him with the weight.
 Trial Lasts Three Days
 l.. M. Laney. county. attorney ar
 gued that Mir. Patterson was seated 2
 the table when the shots were fire
 because one shot struck him on tf
 left knee and the other struck hil
 in the left arm. The paperweight, l
 said, was found on the table with
 piece of paper thrown over it, and
 offered the check as proof that som'
 thing stopped the hand of MT. Pattei
 son in writing 1t, as the pen strol
 stopped on the letter ''r'' in the wol
 hundred.
 The trial began last Thursday mori
 ing and was continued on Friday af
 ernoon until 9;30 yesterday morning