Jury deliberations continue Wednesday afternoon in MC murder trial

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Jury deliberations continue Wednesday afternoon in Marion County Circuit Court in the murder trial of 33-year-old Donald Steven Beckwith Jr. of Yellville. Deliberations began shortly before noon, after closing arguments were heard Wednesday morning. A jury of nine women and three men was seated Monday for what had been anticipated as a two-day trial.

The defense rested mid afternoon Tuesday, after Beckwith took the stand in a somewhat unusual step.

He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and enhancement charges of committing a felony with a firearm and a felony in the presence of a child. He is accused of shooting his uncle, 59-year-old David Dewayne White, and his grandfather, 89-year-old William Henry White, in front of his juvenile son. The incident allegedly occurred in early September in the front yard of his residence along Arkansas Highway 14 south of Yellville.

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