NATION IN BRIEF : MISSISSIPPI : New Venue Is OKd in Medgar Evers Case
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The third trial of a white supremacist in the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be moved to ensure an impartial jury, a judge in Jackson, Miss., ruled. But Hinds County Circuit Judge L. Breland Hilburn thwarted attempts by attorneys for Byron De La Beckwith, 71, a former Greenwood fertilizer salesman, to have the trial held in an area with fewer blacks. Hilburn said the trial must be held in a county with a similar racial makeup as Hinds County, which is 51% black.
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