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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1979
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Deliberation to start today
Davis jury hears final pleas
United Press International
FORT WORTH — The jury in the
murder solicitation trial of T. Cullen
Davis heard two final pleas Tuesday,
one to find him guilty and the other
demanding his acquittal, and then
began deliberations on whether the
millionaire tried to hire someone to
kill his divorce judge.
The eight-man, three-woman jury
adjourned to elect a foreman and
told District Judge Gordon Gray it
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would reconvene at 10 a. m. today to
begin working toward a verdict in
the 15-week trial.
It is the second time Davis has
been tried on the charges, the first
attempt ending in a hung jury in
Houston.
Final arguments ended with
Assistant District Attorney Jack
Strickland claiming Davis thought
he could do anything because of his
wealth, and defense attorney
Richard “Racehorse” Haynes beg
ging the jury not to find Davis guilty
just becase he was rich.
Strickland told jurors there was no
doubt that Davis and star state wit
ness David McCrory plotted to have
District Judge Joe Eidson killed. He
said videotapes and secret tape re
cordings of meetings between Davis
and McCrorv oroved a plot existed.
“There were witnesses,” Strick
land said. “You were all there, by
virtue of the tapes. By virtue of the
video tapes, you don’t have to guess
whether Cullen Davis or David
McCrory were talking about killing
the judge on August 18th, 1978. You
heard that man’s death plotted. You
don’t have to guess whether it hap
pened or not.
“Cullen Davis thinks his wealth
entitled him to do anything he
wanted to do. As surely as I’m stand
ing here you’ve got to put a stop to
this right now. If you don’t tell Cul
len Davis ‘you can’t act like this in
this community,’ he’ll act like this
again.
“The courthouse, the district
attorney, the jury system are not for
sale.”
Operation’s safety praised
United Press International
HOUSTON — A heart special
ist said Tuesday that controversy
about the wisdom of surgery to
bypass blocked heart muscle
arteries had been exaggerated
and that, in many cases, the proc
edure was beneficial and increas
ingly safe.
Since introduced in 1962,
coronary bypass surgery has been
one approach to coronary ather
osclerosis, a disease in which fatty
deposits clog the blood vessels
that fuel the heart muscle. With
out blood, the muscle fails.
Another approach to the prob
lem has been a nonsurgical car
diologist’s approach, relying en
tirely on drugs. Often, the two
approaches are used together.
Bypass surgery, performed
80,000 times last year at costs
ranging from $8,000 to $15,000,
involves borrowing a piece of
blood vessel from the leg and
sewing it around blocked seg
ments of heart artery so blood can
flow freely again.
“I’ve never thought there was
as much controversy as every
body said,” said Dr. J. Willis
Hurst, a cardiologist from Emory
University School of Medicine.
“When you select patients
carefully, not only will it (bypass
surgery) relieve symptoms (crip
pling chest pain), but in certain
categories of patients it will pro
long their lives.”
A Veterans Administration
study a few years ago suggested
that, although the operation re
lieved the chest pain known as
angina pectoris considerably in
most patients, some patients’
lives were prolonged only
slightly.
Hurst said many laymen mis
understood the study to suggest
that coronary bypass surgery was
questionable in any case. Some
observers doubted whether the
supposedly limited benefits justi
fied the high cost of the opera
tion.
“Surgical treatment has im-
f jroved enormously even in the
ast three or four years,” said
Hurst, who tried to divert ques
tions about scientific con
troversy.
He cited statistics showing that
the current operating room fai
lure rate of the surgery is down to
1 percent or less in many hospit-
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“The view ought to be‘I
wonderful that medical an
gical treatment have improv
much that the man in thetati|
a better chance than hehadia)
past,” Hurst said.
He said the average Ame
should know that several cri
govern whether coronary tj
surgery is appropriate for at
cular patient and every 0 campus,
distinctive. e asne y
“You can’t talk in genenlJjv' 0 ^ ca ^ s
Hurst said. “It now is ‘Howl. pV" ^ ^
symptoms do you have?Hov ^ ec ror V c
are you? Which vessels a# xaS Engl
volved? And how well doesl^,^'
muscle contract? What is I
operating risk (for the partioL w
patient)? All these have'
considered.”
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Haynes, at times dropping his
voice to a whisper and then erupting
into shouts and podium-pounding,
portrayed his client as the target of
scheming enemies who were after
his money and framed him for the
murder-fbr-hire arrest.
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — Although
only two days into the proceeding,
the state rested its case Tuesday in
the capital murder trial of Ovide
Joseph Dugas, charged with killing
five of his former in-laws last year at
Winnie.
Dugas’ two court-appointed attor
neys huddled during the noon recess
to determine whether they would
call any defense witnesses.
Jefferson County prosecutor
James McGrath called Nederland
athologist Dr. Stanley M. Leber as
final witness and Leber de
scribed how 3-year-old Jason Phil
lips was shot twice in the head from a
distance of less than 1 foot.
“The destruction was such at that
range that it was almost explosive,”
the pathologist said.
Leber said the child, his grandpa
rents, Bishop Phillips, 64, and
Esther Phillips, 66, and the boy’s
mother, Martha, 34, all were shot
twice in the head at close range, and
that the child’s father, Elmer Phil-
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The principal witness
Dugas, being tried sped
the death of the boy on a
venue from Beaumont,
younger brother, Richard
30, who told the jury that
tried to get him to kill the Phi
Richard Dugas testified
never took seriously his
brother’s threats to kill the
his ex-wife, Mary Phillips!)
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