Pastor says injured Dalton lawyer in good spirits
Posted: 10.20.2008 at 9:33 AM

Lawyer injured in Dalton explosion in good spirits

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(AP) -- The pastor of a lawyer badly burned in a bombing at a north Georgia law firm says the lawyer will remain in the hospital for at least a month.

Jim Phillips, of Calhoun, was taken to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta after a bomb exploded Friday at the Dalton law firm where he worked.  Rev. Billy Beard, assistant pastor of the church attended by Phillips, said the 79-year-old lawyer is in good spirits.  Phillips was still in critical condition Sunday evening.  Dalton police spokesman Bruce Frazier said Sunday investigators are working ot determine why 78-year-old Lloyd Cantrell of Varnell threw a bomb into the McCamy, Phillips Tuggle and Fordham law firm.

Cantrell died in the blast.

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