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An attempted murder case moved closer to resolution, and will avoid a jury trial in Newton.

Martin Luther King Smith Jr, 44, of Newton entered into a plea agreement Oct. 9. Under the agreement Smith will serve 25 years in prison for attempted first degree murder and three counts of aggravated battery. Sentencing is set for 1 p.m. Dec. 17.

March 1 of this year Smith was arrested after he broke into a house and stabbed at least htree people, one of them a teenage boy, the son of a second victim and Smith's girlfriend at the time. He also attacked law enforcement officers when he went to the Harvey County Jail to turn himself in.

The Newton Kansan, Newton KS

Oct. 10, 2014