100 years ago
May 3, 1918
• Ed Spear, whose sentence for using the mails to defraud in connection with an alleged horse racing fake at Hot Springs, recently was affirmed in the United States Supreme Court, and Virgil Cogburn, one of the 11 moonshiners recently rounded up in Montgomery county, were among 11 federal prisoners taken to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta yesterday by deputy Untied States Marshal A. H. Reed. Spear is sentenced to serve concurrently three terms of five years each.
50 years ago
May 3, 1968
• Mrs. Jim Johnson's entry in the Democratic governor's race will not cost him a large block of hard-core segregationist votes, Bruce Bennett said Thursday. Bennett, a former attorney general, said he still was a segregationist but that he "like most people in the state," has accommodated himself to "the laws of the land." He said he appealed to all segments of the electorate and that Mrs. Johnson would have little effect on his race. He said she was "a fine lady, fine housewife and a fine mother."
25 years ago
May 3, 1993
• With a borrowed car at the ready, 15 friends and family at his side, and $1,400 in his campaign fund, Little Rock businessman Otis Kirkland announced Sunday his "common man's" candidacy for lieutenant governor. "Help me send a message to the state of Arkansas that if the governor and the legislators represent the rich and the special interests, it's only fair and fitting that the people of Arkansas do the right thing and elect a common man," Kirkland said in formally announcing his second bid for the lieutenant governor's post.
10 years ago
May 3, 2008
• Nine days into a trial stemming from a surgeon operating on the wrong side of a boy's brain, the plaintiffs' attorney on Friday abruptly withdrew the case, citing possible juror misconduct. Attorney Phillip Duncan of Little Rock, who's representing Pamela and Kenny Metheny, the parents of 19-year-old Cody Ryan Metheny, said he first asked Pulaski County Circuit Judge Ellen Brantley to grant a mistrial over his concerns about possible jury improprieties. She declined. Duncan said that because the jurors' actions bothered him so much, and he didn't want to risk a miscarriage of justice if the panel were allowed to continue hearing the case, he decided to "nonsuit" the case. That means he can refile it within a year, to have it tried by a different jury.
Metro on 05/03/2018