On this date in 1973, Robert Montgomery was sentenced to 3-5 years in the State Penitentiary for second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of his father, Walter Johnson, following a negotiated guilty plea.

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Robert Montgomery, originally charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of his father, today pleaded guilty to a second-degree manslaughter charge and was sentenced to 3-5 years in the State Penitentiary at Bismarck.

Montgomery, a resident of the Watts District of Los Angeles, Calif., was accused in Cass County District Court here of shooting his father—Walter (Monty) Johnson, 73,1317161/2 St. S., Fargo—in the head with a .22 caliber pellet gun. Johnson's body was found at his home Mar

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