
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 7, 1995                   TAG: 9505080100
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BUCKINGHAM                                LENGTH: Short

MAN GUILTY IN SLAYINGS OF FAMILY

A Culpeper County man was convicted Saturday of capital murder, first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the shooting of three members of a Spears Mountain family.

A Buckingham County Circuit Court jury deliberated for more than four hours before reaching the verdict just after midnight Friday against Mays Tate Jr., 23, for the May 29, 1992, shootings. Clarence Stinson, 69, his 62-year-old sister, Eva R. Stinson, and her 40-year-old daughter, Gloria Stinson, were killed.

The jury recommended life sentences for each conviction.

Prosecutor E.M. Wright Jr. told the jury that Tate killed the three to fulfill the wishes of his grandmother, Lena Stinson, the estranged wife of Clarence Stinson.

- Associated Press

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