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r~ Wednesday, February 1, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 Jury seated in child murder case isieminisd limes ofcoM United Press International *1 JEFFERSON — A five -man, 'i ndroM seven-woman jury was seated ' Hlij Tuesday to hear the murder romunitJ tr i a i G f a woman accused of fatal- ntcessM ly beating her 3-month-old 1 ad . va ^ daughter. realizeilJ yjje panel was selected after les P ons >l* two days of questioning. 1 Testimony in the case of Sherry Allman is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. today. I Allman, 25, of Marshall, is «narged with murder and injury a child in the Nov. 10, 1982, death of 3-month-old Sherry Hynn Allman. Her trial was Hpoved from nearby Marshall because of extensive news accounts of the case. Wedding said his client attained a “drug-induced san ity” after spending three months at Rusk State Hospital. “I think the whole key to this entire case is the state of mind,” Wedding said. Harrison County District Attorney Sam Baxter opened the second day of jury selection by detailing for the group the possible verdicts that could be returned against Allman, who is accused of beating the child with her hands. He said the jury could return any of eight possi ble verdicts. Allman could be convicted of murder or injury to a child, both of which carry prison terms of five to 99 years or life; involun tary manslaughter or wreckless injury to a child, which carry a two to 10 year jail term; crimin ally negligent homicide or negli gent injury to a child, punish able by up to one year in jail; not guilty by reason of insanity, or not guilty. The jury selection process be gan after Judge Ben Z. Grant denied a Defense attorneys had contended the woman was men tally incompetent when she con fessed to police shortly after her arrest. Investigators said Allman told them she began hitting her daughter when the infant would not stop crying. At a pretrial hearing last week, she said she did not re member giving oral and written statements. A psychiatrist testified during the hearing that Allman suffers severe depression, was mildly retarded and has multiple per sonality defects. Sherry Lynn’s death initially was attributed to Sudden Infant Death syndrome, but an autopsy performed at Baxter’s request found the child suffered several injuries, including a broken neck, and that she also previous ly had been abused. The finding led to an investi gation of the deaths of three other Allman children, and All- man later was indicted in Kansas City, Mo., for second-degree murder in the 1976 death of 4- month-old Marvin Neal Allman, who was smothered with a pillow. No indictment was returned in the 1978 death of 1-month- old Joseph, who Allman claimed accidentally smothered when she rolled over him in her sleep. The grand jury did not inves tigate the death of another All- man baby who died following a premature birth. Mass-murder suspect described s ‘a pleasant, religious man’ United Press International mr suspea esus Re\t Kico,comi lay at alwl o slate ti attyingty imty. I MIAMI — A woman who ievedtoli*ihired a suspected mass- ireinCiudi murderer to chauffeur juvenile si across ik delinquents said Tuesday the o. He was l? man who turned out to be d gunshott George Clarence Bridgette “car- i said. tied and quoted f rom the Bible.” I Bridgette, 37, accused of four slavings in Long Beach, Calif., 41 Vvl surrendered without resistance Monday night to FBI agents at l/On ^' s room ' n g house in Miami’s VWW Coconut Grove section, where he lived with his wife and 2-year- 2|0 old daughter. 5/ v Listed as one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives, Bridget- mationa! te was being held Tuesday in the gorth Dade Detention Center. A House: 38 e was appear before a feder- ctedlosm al magistrate in Miami later for a mi: Tuesday, glary hah s a juror te as grantef ay. Bridgette, who worked for the state as a driver for a center for delinquent youths under the name Odell Davis, is suspected of killing four people, including a 3-year-old girl, in 1977, said F'BI spokesman Dennis Erich. Two accomplices in the murder have been arrested and con victed. Of ficials said he has been em ployed as a baker, laborer and maintenance man, and also worked for the state Depart ment of Health and Rehabilita tive Services as a transportation worker. Doris Capri, superintendent of the Dade County Juvenile Center in northwest Miami, said Tuesday Bridgette was hired in April as a driver, frequently chauffeurring delinquent youths aged 10 to 17 to court dates, to hospitals and to train ing schools. “He was a very good worker. We had no problem with his work whatsoever,” Capri said. “He was pleasant. He was a reli gious man. He carried a Bible and quoted from the Bible,” she said. FBI agents were tipped to Bridgette’s whereabouts by an unidentified caller who said he recognized Bridgette from an FBI poster, Erich said. Five people were shot in the 1977 incident, which the FBI said was drug related. Filipinos protest against government idge Shea: to serves butafterL United Press International lice office.; xtraneoi ndant t nse madt d. granted ai sed. e was di| it geltopifi e process c ice andil MANILA — Some 500,000 protesters, many chanting “re volution” and “Marcos resign,” packed the streets of the capital Tuesday in the largest anti- government demonstration since the funeral of Benigno Aquino. | Cheering throngs jammed rooftops, sidewalks and over passes to welcome a crowd of ab out 30,000 demonstrators who joined the last leg of a 90-mile protest march the government vainly tried to stop. It began Friday in the birth place of the slain opposition leader in northern Tarlac pro vince as a jogging marathon to the site of his assassination on Aug. 21 at Manila Airport on his return from three years of self exile in the United States. “We got what we wanted and more,” said Aquino’s younger brother, Agapito, who led the o-called “Tarlac to Tarmac” arathon. “It is a triumph of the memory of my brother and of the spirit of reconciliation.” Police and church-run Radio Veritas estimated 500,000 Filipi nos turned out, making the de monstration against the 18-year- old rule of President Ferdinand Marcos the biggest since 2 mil lion people attended Aquino’s funeral five months ago. “Welcome, heroes of free dom,” proclaimed signs held aloft as the protesters entered the Makati financial district. 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