Jury weighing fate of Perkiomen man accused in deadly hammer attack

Jury weighing fate of Perkiomen man accused in deadly hammer attack

NORRISTOWN — The fate of a Perkiomen Township man accused of using a hammer to fatally beat his girlfriend is now in the hands of a Montgomery County jury. The jury seated at the homicide trial of William Roy Carey Jr. received the case at 11 a.m. after hearing closing statements from the lawyers and receiving legal instructions from Judge Wendy G. Rothstein, who presided over the trial. Carey, 47, of the 500 block of Gravel Pike, faces charges …