Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, January 26, 1984
Mother charged with abuse
forgets making statement
by Scott McCullar
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United Press International
MARSHALL — A 25-year-
old woman charged with the
beating death of her 3-month-
old child testified in a pretrial
hearing Wednesday she did not
remember giving an oral state
ment to officials after her arrest.
Sherry Allman of Marshall is
accused of beating her daugh
ter, Sherry Lynn, to death in
November 1982.
The hearing was called on a
motion by defense attorneys
who are trying to convince Dis
trict Judge Ben Z. Grant to
throw out the written and oral
statements given by Allman to
police shortly after her arrest.
Jury selection is scheduled to
begin Monday in Jefferson,
where the trial was moved from
Marshall on a change of venue.
Grant made no ruling on the de
fense motion Wednesday, and
said it may be next week before
he does rule.
Assistant District Attorney
Bonnie Leggate testified she
warned Allman of her rights be
fore taking her statement in the
case.
But, Allman said she could
not remember making the state
ment Nov. 13, 1982, or even
talking to Leggate.
Allman said the signature on
the written statement was hers,
but she did not remember writ-
mg it.
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Defense psychiatrist Dr. Wil
liam Wilkerson Jr. testified All-
man suffered multiple personal
ity defects, and severe depress
ion for mild mental retardation.
He said she could develop hys
terical amnesia whenever une.
Wilkerson said Allman, who
quit school in the seventh grade,
is in the lower 1 percent intelli
gence range on IQ tests.
Defense attorneys claim All-
man was mentally incompetent
when she talked to officers in
vestigating the baby’s death.
Allman was to have been
tried late last year, but a mistrial
was declared Nov. 14 after she
was brought handcuffed before
a courtroom full of potential
jurors.
The woman originally was
found mentally incompetent to
stand trial, but doctors at Rusk
State Hospital told Grant last
July that treatment at the facility
had enabled Allman to under
stand the charges against her
and aid in her defense.
Sherry Lynn’s death initially
was attributed to Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome, but an auto
psy disclosed she suffered a frac
tured skull, broken neck, three
broken ribs and an arm injury.
Those findings prompted
officials in Texas and Missouri
to investigate the deaths of three
other Allman children, and led
to charges against Allman in the
1976 suffocation death of her
son, Marvin Neal, in Kansas
City.
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Staff writer
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Bryan Mayor Ron Blatchley
said Tuesday he is trying to con
vince Humana Hospital to stay
in Bryan and not move to Col
lege Station.
Blatchley said he’s not trying
to force the hospital to stay as
was reported earlier this week,
but is simply trying to convince
officials to remain in Bryan —
for two reasons. First, he wants
to keep the Bryan medical cen
ter intact because of the excel
lent service provided by both in
stitutions. Second, Humana is a
tax-paying entity, therefore, he
wants them to remain in the city
of Bryan.
“As mayor of Bryan, it’s ex
pected I make a visit to any tax-
paying entity wanting to move
and try to convince them to
stay,” he explained. ‘‘That’s
I really wanted to do. I
wasn’t trying to stop them, but
convince them to stay.”
tersection of Texas 6 and Rock
Prarie Road, is a growing part of
College Station, she said.
Last Thursday, the College
Station Planning and Zoning
Commision passed the recom-
endation that the hospital move
to College Station. An applica
tion was then submitted to the
state, which was sent back with a
list of questions.
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application procedure. A hear
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tion erf the questions.
Humana is presently located
at 1305 Memorial Dr. in Bryan, a
short block from St. Joseph Hos
pital.
Cornelison said if appro
the new hospital will prai
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Pat Cornelison, executive
director at Humana, said there
are several reasons the hospital
wants to make the move to Col
lege Station.
The most important reason is
the new location, near the in-
As for ‘breaking up the
medical center,’ Cornelison said
the move would cause no trou
ble. Interaction between the two
hospitals was minimal - monthly
administration meetings and the
occasional transfer of equipt-
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