Thursday, March 10, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7
State funds asked
for inmates’ trials
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‘Bat Study
Marty Warren, a sophomore electrical engineering
■kjor from La Porte lets his studies go to his head.
photo by Guy Hood
Warren ’tyas just hanging around the monkey bars
near the aerobics track.
United Press International
AUSTIN — The state should
pick up the tab for prosecuting
prison inmates who commit
crimes inside penitentiary walls,
officials of the county that
houses the state’s biggest prison
complex told a House com
mittee.
Members of the House Juris
prudence Committee appeared
sympathetic to Walker County’s
plignt Tuesday, but referred to
a subcommittee a bill that would
require the state to pay part of
the costs of trials that arise from
crimes inside prisons.
Walker County Judge Ralph
Davis Jr. told committee mem
bers his county currently was
forced to pay for prison cases
such as the two capital murder
trials of inmate Eroy Brown that
already cost the county
$200,000.
A third trial for Brown was
expected to cost another
$100,000 and “we’ve only got
$20,000 in our contingency
fund,” Davis said.
Brown’s first trial for killing a
prison warden ended in a mist
rial. He was acquitted of the war
den’s death in a second trial and
still faces charges of murder in
the death of a guard.
“We’re not talking about our
fund today. We’re talking about
the future,” Davis said of the bill
that would cover crimes commit
ted after Sept. 1, 1983.
“Fellows, this is a state issue,”
he said. “These inmates are your
inmates. You’re putting a bur
den on the counties where these
(prison) units are located.”
Twelve of Texas’ 254 counties
have Texas Department of Cor
rections’ units. Walker County
District Attorney Frank Blazek
said he viewed the bill as an “in
surance policy for these counties
that have TDC units.”
Rep. Mark Davis, D-Freeport,
whose district includes part of
Brazoria County, said a routine
escape cost his county $7,000 for
a recent five-day trial.
“We’ve been fortunate not to
have had an Eroy Brown case,
but the possibility exists,” he
said. “We house criminals from
all over the state, but we get the
bill.”
,.Killer’s parents appeal case
B;: United Press International
SAN ANGELO — The pa
nts of convicted killer Charles
Rumbaugh said Tuesday they
ill appeal a federal judge’s de-
aration that their son is men-
lly competent to decide to stop
jpealing his execution.
“Just suppose that Charles
as your son,” Harvey Rum-
lugh said. “What would you
A'edding!&f Does a normal person de-
Ixr given de death over life. We believe
learing. e is incompetent of making his
still ivn decisions.”
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Rumbaugh, 25, was twice
convicted in the 1975 murder
and robbery of an Amarillo
jeweler. The first conviction was
overturned by the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals.
“We wish to prolong his life as
long as we can,” the elder Rum
baugh said. “There have been
worse crimes committed that
didn’t result in the death pen
alty.”
On Monday, U.S. District
Judge Mary Lou Robison of
Amarillo set aside a stay of ex
ecution for Rumbaugh, clearing
the way for state officials to set a
new date for death by injection.
Following the mental com
petency hearing, at which Rum
baugh attacked a law officer who
shot and seriously wounded
him, Robison declared Rum
baugh competent to “make a ra
tional choice with respect to con
tinuing or abandoning further
litigation.”
The ruling lifted a July 20,
1982, stay of execution entered
by a federal court in Houston
would be
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IVeddiiK CARROLL TON — A passer-
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II because garage door of a home
abys deal' ues day and saved three chil-
ren trapped by a fire which
m the house.
estroyei
A witness said the fire began
Ur i the bedroom of the one-story
j rick house and the children,
* ges 3, 4 and 12, attempted to
f C scape through the garage door.
I Ruth Shately heard the chil-
ren cry for help and called fire
J3 q fficials.
^ ij Ph'l Elsberry, 27, noticed the
urning home and Shately
ess Inlenii»y in S t0 fr , ee , the children,
sj _ Eveifhen several others were un-
McAfefflk t0 open the locked door, he
» seeing to the children to back
the judgefay from the door and he ram-
t robe liifd't with his truck,
e which kllThe children were treated for
1 colorol ttoke inhalation.
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which set aside Rumbaugh’sjuly
23, 1982, execution date until
the mental competency hearing
could be conducted.
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