Sentence
Alferd Packer's verdict was gulity, with death by hanging.
The legend was that Judge Melville B.Gerry, on pronouncing sentencing said...
"...There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County! But you, yah viscoes, man-eatin
Son Of a *itch, yah ate five of them, therefor I sentence te T' be hanged by the
neck until y're Dead, Dead, Dead!" Late rAlferds sentence was dropped to manslaughter and he was given forty- years
in Canon City prision.