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Thursday, September 3, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local -^former governor tells U.S. court r«iiia^« a M li^^sists^ in contempt of court, 11© nOS $93 million in liobllitios gets 3-doy sentence ace AUSTIN (AP) — Former Gov. ihn B. Connally told the U.S. iankruptcy Court on Wednesday lat he has $850 cash on hand, 5,100 on deposit and $93.3 lillion in liabilities. Connally’s financial statement >ted assets totalingiust over $13 lillion, including $12.3 million real property and approxi mately $4,000 in uncirculated $1 Sills that were among the first to bear his signature as U.S. Trea- fury secretary. I Mark Browning, a lawyer rep- •senting Connally, said a meet- ijig of Connally’s creditors was heduled for Thursday, as was a parate meeting of creditors for e Barnes-Connally Partnership d other partnerships. Connally, 70, sought protec- n under Chapter 11 of the nkruptcy laws on July 31, seek- g to reorganize his deots. ■ Barnes-Connally, the company ■e formed with former Texas Lt. Bov. Ben Barnes, filed for liqui dation of assets under Chapter 7 the same day. Several of their other partnerships also filed un der Chapter 7 and Chapter IT. E Connally was Texas governor from 1963 to 1969. He served as B.S. Navy secretary under Presi dent John F. Kennedy and as Treasury secretary under Rich ard Nixon. In 1980, he unsuc cessfully sought the Republican Party’s nomination for president. In an interview last month, sonal property that he is allowed to claim under Texas laws. Other assets include $156,700 in farm implements and supplies, $1,250 in livestock and other ani mals, and $348,550 interest in “People had faith and confidence in me, and they loaned me money. Now I think I owe it to them to use every asset I have available to me to try to satisfy as much of those debts as possible. ” —John B. Connally, former Texas governor Connally told the Associated Press that he planned to repay as many debts as possible. “People had faith and confi dence in me, and they loaned me money,” he said. “Now I think I owe it to them to use every asset I have available to me to try to sat isfy as much of those debts as pos sible.” According to the statements Connally filed in court Wednes day, his assets include his 3,495- acre Picosa Ranch at Floresville, valued at $3.49 million. The documents say Connally will claim as exempt 200 acres of that ranch and $30,000 in per corporation and unincorporated companies. Real property claimed as assets includes the 10,400-acre Rose Ranch in Del Rio, valued at $3.06 million; the 836-acre River Ranch in Wilson County, $1.04 million, and the 2,674-acre Sand Hills Ranch, also in Wilson County, $3.34 million. He listed a Houston condomi nium valued at $475,000, and a house in the Barnes-Connally de velopment in Austin, the Estates of Barton Creek, valued at $900,000. Connally’s liabilities included $9.3 million owed secured cred itors and nearly $84 million owed unsecured creaitors. Major unsecured creditors in clude San Antonio Savings Asso ciation, $17.2 Million; Cred- itBanc Savings, Austin, $12.54 million; Vernon Savings & Loan Association, Vernon, $11.5 mil lion; Bell Savings 8c Loan Associa- don, San Mateo, Calif., $11.1 mil lion; First Republic Bank-Dallas, $6.4 million; Western Savings As sociation, Gatesville, $5.7 million, and RepublicBank-Dallas, $4.8 million. Secured creditors listed in the filings included the Travelers In surance Co., $4.8 million; Lock heed Financial Corp., $1.6 mil lion, Love Field National Bank, Dallas, $1.4 million, and North American Mortgage, Houston, $500,000. Connally has blamed the downturn in the Texas economy, which was compounded by the collapse of oil prices late in 1985. “We got into it, unfortunately, at the wrong time,” Connally said in August. “We got into it heavily in 1982 and 1983, and just about the time we got committed on a lot of major projects the eco nomic turndown came and there just wasn’t much we could do about it.” HOUSTON (AP) — Harris County District Attorney John B. Holmes was sentenced to three days in jail Wednesday after being held in contempt of court for refusing to prosecute a burglary case. Holmes declined to prosecute the case as a challenge to a state law that he says will prohibit visiting judges from helping ease the workload of full-time judges. He was jailed without bond, but arrangements were being made to secure his release, his secretary Jo Tinkle said. “We’ve filed for a writ of habeas corpus with the Court of Criminal Appeals asking he be released pen ding a hearing,” Assistant District Attorney Calvin Hartman said Wednesday. The appellate court in Austin, the only body able to set a bond for Holmes, probably would rule soon on the matter, Hartman said. The incident began Tuesday when Holmes refused to prosecute Freddie Charles Miller, 30, for the alleged burglary of a building. Visiting State District Judge Pete Moore, who also criticized the change in the law, found Holmes in contempt. Moore sentenced Holmes and then released him on his own re cognizance until a Wednesday morning hearing, in which the rul ing was upheld. Holmes’ office interprets the new Government Code as prohibiting Moore from hearing the burglary case because State District Judge Jay Burnett, for whom Moore was sub stituting, was presiding over a capital murder case across the hall. The law, which went into effect Tuesday, is being criticized by Holmes and area judges. They say the legal system will bog down if the county is not allowed to use visiting judges to help elected judges who are tied up for weeks on capital mur der cases. At issue is a section of the new code which says visiting judges can not conduct business for an elected judge if the elected judge is sitting on the bench. Visiting judges are used frequently in Harris County. In 1983 two laws were enacted af fecting Harris County criminal dis trict courts. One barred visiting judges from conducting court while the judge for whom they were sub stituting were presiding over court elsewhere. A second law, considered a qualifier to the first law, said visit ing judges could substitute for judges who are presiding over capi tal murder trials. Sergeant gets life sentence for murder, attempted rape but itdofti te of the m state prison: ;tween inini: ;nt the spren . The New It o distribute tales. It wouldn't be ed similar o protect the : hey should! first place, ion f rom All y a powerfu he no-sex n is is the on!' rabof une* tto toptf Texas alio* 1 AIDS Carrie MAUSTIN (AP) — Air Force Tech. Sgt. Gerald Mobley was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the murder and at tempted rape of a Bergstrom Air Force Base employee. |gA panel of eight Air Force officers delib erated for three hours before sentencing Mobley, 34, to prison rather than to death, their only other option. Mobley could be el igible for parole in 10 years. Air Force offi cials said. Mobley, whose wife and three children were at Bergstrom for the sentencing hear ing, said “No sir,” when the judge. Col. Philip F. O’Neill, read the verdict and asked if he had any questions. Mobley then sat and broke into tears. The sergeant, a 15-year veteran, was found guilty in the February death of Cyn thia Torres, a civilian cashier at the Bergs trom Non-Commissioned Officers’ Club. Mobley, who was stationed at George Air Force Base near Victorville, California, was temporarily assigned to Bergstrom at the time Torres was killed. The decision of the military court goes to the 12th Air Force Commander, Lt. Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, who convened the court martial and who can receive further pleadings from the defense. McPeak can confirm the sentence, re duce it or decide that insufficient evidence was presented during the trial for a convic tion. After a decision by McPeak, the sen tence automatically will be appealed to the Air Force Court of Military Appeals in Washington, officials said. Capt. Mahala Sawyer, the only female member of the jury, said the panel consid ered Mobley’s unblemished service record and the evidence presented at the trial in deciding on a life sentence. “It’s always difficult when someone’s life is in jeopardy,” she said. Torres, a 25-year-old mother of two, was found near death February 7 in the parking lot of the club by her husband, an airman at the base. She had been strangled with her automobile’s seat belt. She died two days later. During the trialcircumstantial evidence was introduced that linked Mobley to the crime. Blood found on Mobley’s clothes matched that of the victim, according to tes timony in the trial. No eyewitnesses were produced. Prosecutors called 23 witnesses to testify in the guilt phase of the trial, while the de fense called no one to the stand. In the sen tencing phase, the defense called 18 charac ter witnesses, including Mobley’s family and friends, and the prosecution called two wit nesses, both Air Force personnel. 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