Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1983)
Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, December 9,1983 Attorneys 9 arguments in kidnapping trial end R.I. United Press International GALVESTON — A prosecu- or Thursday urged jurors to onvict Ronald Floyd White of kidnapping and burying alive iis former employer’s son, but a defense lawyer argued White vas a victim who should be ac- juitted for insanity. White, 38, was accused of kid- [lapping Michael Baucom, 22, of Santa Fe, for ransom Sept. 21 and burying him alive for five days in a box near Conroe, 70 miles to the north. Baucom was freed unharmed. No ransom was paid. “I ask you to bring back a verdict you can be proud of, a verdict of guilt,” prosecutor Jim James said in final arguments. Defense lawyer Elmo Schwab told the jury in his final argu ment White should be found in nocent by reason of insanity be cause he was a victim of his own mental state and possibly the vic tim of a larger plot. “It’s the only reasonable ver dict that’s fair to both victims,” Schwab said. Schwab suggested through out the trial someone else duped White into a plot to extract money from Baucom’s father, Benny Baucom. But James struck hard and angrily at the defense sugges tion White was either a victim or legally insane at the time of the kidnapping. Finals WeeK in Aggie land... Political Science 2.06 Final Ejcam 1. Which is not & Constitutional power of Congress? (a) Taxation (b) Regulation of Interstate Commerce Paul Dirme\ fc) Impeachment (djCommander in chief functions fe) I Sont knaw.Tmonlytt this because I have b.. Chief not invited to party United Press International j • i . ... S. / SAN ANTONIO — The Police Officers Association has PROBLEM PREGNANCY Are you considering Abortion? Confidential Free Pregnancy Testing & Referrals Call (713) 524-0548 Houston, Texas move decided not to invite Police Chief Charles Rodriguez to the group’s annual Christmas party, angering some rank and file officers who called the “stupid. The decision by the SAPOA has prompted at least two offic ers to resign from the police association. “I have been a member for 30 years, and in that time the asso ciation has made some mistakes but not one as stupid as not invit ing the chief of police to the Christmas party,” Sgt. Horace Neaves wrote in a resignation letter Wednesday. “I think at the very least it is a stupid move,” said Lt. Javier Moreno, who also resigned. “All the other chiefs have been in vited.” Rodriguez, recently hired from the Los Angeles County Shreiffs Department, angered SAPOA officials last week by saying he wanted the option of going outside the department to hire two non-union assistants. The union objected to Rodri guez’s appointment in the first place because the city picked the juniors new chief from outside tin partment. SAPOA President RoIk Rudewick and Vice PresiJ Billy Wolf declined commeiJ the decision not to allow including the chief, to attend annual party. But many officers criti the decision, saying! officials were misrepresent their fellings. “Isn't this the season oft* on earth and good will tomcl said Detective Anton MichaltJ Purdm prank is OK o Halted I EST Vj A mafia grad, vet, m eh**"*- United Press tnlernalionil WEST LAFAYETTE,In The souvenirs that sixPui \J diversity students sm aboard a space shuttle wil cost the school a chance to more experiments into spatf|f U g eeSi i nc the surnmdr of 1986. North Viet “But I can assure youou: vo |ved in gr dents won’t be sending a iders, thre; any extra souvenirs nexttiaMinst oth< said John Snow, thePuiAwern states, a culty adviser for the expeB ments. “We wound tipwithiBpg^^, of controversy over this, y, e “Vietm was actually resolved on a «« m the ^ good basis." the Mount The National AeronautiBL^ and Space Administration(tj fiscated souvenirs the studo |g ut £ f j v planted among NASI | ent con j approved student experime^ p ac if lc on the Challenger flightinjv j 1 j na ] j US [; Some of the Purduesti much of feared arrest, but nochargf were filed after NASA oft f-w 7 interviewed them on camput |i - The students hadhopd-B return of the items, vm'-K eluded postage stamps, to® □ QT^ cards, dollar bills, love note pi ^ snapshots of students fain F' C_7 The scheme worked J Unit* enough to orbit fiEAUM might have succeeded, b f ofatruckr dent was caught nearasog bug in shop at Cape Kennedy^ a $ 3 r Center offering to jjblaming tl the stamps that made he accident a] T wo buyers turned out ^ ^ NASA investigators. Attorm . ,,H be tsbeo loday ^ p "“; 16 p—»''° n ' Oec. 8.30 a.m- to 4 ^^845-2681. For more ' nlotma Part of NASA’s concern® have been the memoryola incident in which three p 15 astronauts s ® cret T^ pic re me souvenir stamped emel 'pearly the r the moon. Their space yw were ruined when tneen'^M s) ended up with a Germans company f dealer who sold the erlv for th $150,000. gers. The students fared ^ “We didn’t regard it» minal offense,” said m Miller, a NASA manage works with outside group . ing to share shuttle spae e periments. the petiti Court We< ichard C where the At also c Iward P< pitalizc hes he Abandon® mine shaft to be fhhf road Commission ^ day it has contracted || Stockton company^.,^ abandoned t Tiercur ^_ n c e iili near Terlingua that p° ger to tourists. The commissi° n ^ ton Contractors,}^^ [o r« the low bid off?’", « work, which will 8 J mor y!'; , racta H» The contract wp mines to be backfil ■ i 11 shafts, one pf ^ uA feet deep, will ^ surface under a s P 1 tract - . Wnl'J Funding for th e provided by a S ra f c ur ! 4 federal Office of!) * Mining. i Commission of litlj exposed shafts on I pose a hazard to tou^ 1 |