PEACENESS DIDN'T SAVE HIM.
And in Spite of Truthness Charles
Sovern is Convicted.
It was but a few minutes after the attorney for Charles Sovern, who has been on trial in Judge E. E. Porterfield's court for the shooting of Frank W. Lander, had asked a witness: "Were Mr. and Mrs. Sovern in their store, or were they not?" then he asked this of another:
"What is Sovern's reputation for truthness, peaceness and quietness, good or bad, eh?"
That convulsed the courtroom and the jury, but when Assistant Prosecutor Bert S. Kimbrell came back with, "Have you any personal knowledge of his reputation for truthness, etc.," Judge Porterfield had to rap to bring the stenographer and clerk to order.
The jury gave Sovern three years in the penitentiary. The evidence was that he shot Lander over a business quarrel. Sovern owns a store at 4315 East Fifteenth street and Lander has one at 4317 the same street. Lander had the bullets picked out and recovered.
