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HOUSTON AP -A DISTRICT
COURT JURY RULED THUR$DjY -THAT
A CHARLES ROY HEFLEY 11, 86, OF
FORT WORTH, ACCUSED OF RAPING
A ;C-YEAB OLD MOTHER AND
DROWNING HER TWOINFANT SONS, IS
SANE.
diEFLEY UAS BEEN COi1PINED TO
RUSE STATE LLO5YITAIL SINCE A
FORT VVORTH JURY RULED fIM IIN-
SANE IN 1965.
THE JURY RETURNED THE VEhDICTi
IN DISTRICT JUDGE Es B. DUO.-
GAN'S COURT.
AEFLEY WAS EiOT IMME1DIATELY
RELEASED Fv'ii CUSTODY P&D
SPOKESMAN FOR THE~ TARRAET
COUNTY DISTRICT AT TORNEY 'S OFFICE
SAID HEFLEY WOULD BE RETURNED
TO THE RUSE HOSPITAL FOR AT LEAST
3O DAYS PENDING ANY APPEAL BY
(THE STATE THROUGH THE COURTS. A
PERSON AIHO IS FOUND TO :BE IN-
SANE BY A JURY AT THlE TIUE OF A
CRIME MAY NOT BE TRIED FOE TLTAT
CRIME ONCE A SUBSEQUENT JURY
FINDS H IM SANE, ACCORDING T O
STATE LAW.
iIEFLEY WAS ACCUSED OF STABB-
ING, BEATING AND RAPING TlE
YU MOTHER AND THiROWIC lIN
(SONS IN THE TRINITY RIVER.
TL INCIDENT OCCURRED DEPT.
10, 1964 IN FOREST iEARK, A RE-
NOTE AREA OF FORT WORTH WHEWE
AEFLEY WAS ACCUSED OF ABDUCT-
ING MRS. CAROLYN ADAMS.
J)R. RALPH Ee CAMPBELL, 1)I-
B2CTOR OF THE FORT WORTH STATE
MENTAL LIEALTH CLINIC, TESTIFIED
EARLIER THAT iIEFLEY IS '4NOT PSY-
CHOT IC AND NO T INSANE.'0
CAMPBELL TESTIFIED THAT dlEFLE2YHAS AN AVERAGE OR HIGH IK.
THlE HEARING WAS TilE THIET) FOE
LIEFLEY SINCE fIS ORIGINAL TRIAl.
THE OTHER HEARINGS WERE fIETC
AT FORT I.ORTH IN DECEMBER
1%63 AND JULY 1971 WHERE REi'LE.
WiAS RULED STILL INSANE.
THE ONE HERE WAS MOVED TO
AOUSTON ON A CHANGE OF VENUE.14-I4-72 o?.5IPos
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Hefley], script, December 14, 1972; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1794674/m1/1/?q=%221972-12-14%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.