The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-25
CHILD WIFE TAXES
 STAND ID DEFEND
 ACCUSED SLAYER
Mrs. Miner, Bride of Nine Months, Contradicts Evi- dence of Father and Sis
 ter In Murder Case

Meridian, Miss, February 24.-(Special.) The defense in the trial of Roy c. Miner, indicted for the murder of Mrs. Jose phine Morris. opened it's case in the cir cult court this morning with the intro duction of character witnesses and wit nesses designed to impeach the reliability of bloodhounds used in the chase and subsequent arrest of the defendant, and closed late today with the testimony of Mrs. Allie Miner, .19-year-old wife of tile accused The young husband was not placed on the stand
 In announcing that the defense rested, Judge Reilly of the defense counsel made a motion that the jury be taken to the scene of the crime in the Vimville com niunty that the members might better acquaint themselves with the surround ngs. Judge Fatheree reserved his de- cision on the motion until tomorrow morning, and the case, which has at tracted wide interest throughout the week. will be submitted to the jury fol- lowing the testimony of a few witnesses to be introduced by the state in rebut- tta1 and the summoning by counsel proo- ably late tomorrow afternoon
 WIPES TESTIMONY
 The young wife of the defendant, who is brunette of striking beauty with flashing eyes, was apparently perfectly composed when she took the witness stand and appeared to be but slightly, If at all, ruffled when she was excused after a severe cross-examnation by Dis trct Attorney Martin Miller. She testi- fled to the movements of her husband practically every minute of his time ror two days before the body of Mrs. Morris was found by her father and mother. MT. and Mrs J. E. Johnson, in cornfield belonging to them, as well as on the day the body was found.
 She contradicted the testimony of her small sister, Cleo who had testified for the state that she had seen Roy Miner, her brother-in-law, leave the Johnson home with a shotgun shortly before the report of a gun was heard. She also con tradicted parts of her fathers testimony for the state, and testified that while visiting her father in jail while he was being held as suspect, he asked her to say that she saw him in the sugar cane patch when the report of the gun was heard; that she refused, telling her frsher that she intended to tell the truth 1T questioned.
 He then told her, she testified, that she had seen him there, and that she could say so without any reference to the report of the gun. Such statement com ing from her, she further stated her father said. would get him out of jaid 2
 CROSS-EXAMINED
 Her testimony detailed the movements of her husband, Roy Miner, throughout the day of the alleged murder he being out of her sight only very few minutes at any time until he was sent by her father to Odom's store two miles away, to telephone the sheriff of the finding or the dead body. Most of the time during the forenoon of that day, she said, her husband was working on wagon close to where she was washing clothes in the back yard of her fathers home.
 On cross examination. Mrs. Miner, who married Roy Miner sometime in May of last year, going to live with him on a email farm he owned in the neighborhood of her parents home. testified that she had never been to the home of J. H. Miner, her father-in-law. In this city, un-s til after her husband had been arrested and accused of slaying Mrs. Morris. She further testified that since her husband had been in jail she had remained in the