Jury To Decide On Ruby’s Sanity
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter —Copyright) DALLAS, June 12. The long legal battle of the nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, sentenced to death for murdering the presumed assassin of President Kennedy, takes a new turn this week.
A jury trial opens tomorrow to decide whether he is sane enough to choose his own legal counsel. Witnesses will be mainly psychiatrists and the sheriff’s deputies who guard him. Ruby’s lawyers made an unsuccessful bid on Friday to stop the hearing. They said that his rights would be violated if they presented witnesses who ■ might be called if a second murder
trial is allowed. If the jury finds him insane, he will go into a mental hospital until he recovers and is able to appeal. A court found Ruby guilty on March 14, 1964, of shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after the President’s assassination. Oswald was in police custody at the time. A long series of appeals and legal manoeuvres has followed the conviction.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 13
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