ALAMO LOSES APPEAL ON PRODUCING BODY.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Evangelist Tony Alamo's appeal of an order that he produce his wife's body will not be considered by the Arkansas Court of Appeals because it was not filed in a timely manner, the court said Wednesday. Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. , who headed the Holy Alamo Christian Church, originally in Saugus and now headquartered in Dyer, Ark., is in a federal prison in Texas for federal tax violations. When Alamo is released from the federal prison, he probably would be jailed in Crawford County Crawford County is the name of eleven counties in the United States:
The presiding officer, the Official Principal and Auditor, has been the same person as the Dean of the Arches since the nineteenth century . judge has ordered him jailed until he reveals the location of his wife's body. Susan Alamo's body has been missing since February 1991, and her daughter, Christhiaon Coie of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , wants to know where it is so she can bury her mother in a family cemetery in Crawford County. Susan Alamo died of cancer in April 1982, and her husband kept her embalmed body in a casket in a building in Dyer for months while followers prayed for her resurrection. Finally, her casket was placed in an above-ground burial vault nearby. The vault was broken open and her body was missing, however, when federal marshals seized the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation compound to satisfy a $2.4 million judgment against Tony Alamo Tony Alamo (born Bernie LaZar Hoffman, September 20, 1934 in Joplin, Missouri[][]), is a controversial American preacher, singer, entrepreneur, and religious evangelist. . The foundation was the predecessor to the Holy Alamo Christian Church. Coie sued Alamo in 1991 for the return of her mother's body and Chancellor Jim Spears ruled in her favor Sept. 14, 1995. Six days later, at 4:26 p.m., Alamo filed notice of appeal. Three minutes later, he filed a motion for a new trial motion for a new trial n. a request made by the loser for the case to be tried again on the basis that there were significant legal errors in the way the trial was conducted and/or the jury or the judge sitting without a jury obviously came to an incorrect result. . The Appeals Court said Wednesday that there is nothing in the record to indicate the chancellor ruled on the motion for a new trial. That means the motion was considered denied after 30 days. The court cited the Arkansas Rule of Appellate Procedures which says a notice of appeal has no effect if it is filed before there is a ruling on a motion for a new trial. The court said Alamo should have filed a new notice of appeal. |
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