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Show CARL MAGEE, NEW MEX. EDITOR, TO BE TRIED FOR MANSLAUGHTER j LAS VEGAS, X. M., June 2 (IT). When Curl C. MiiRee, editor of the State Tribune nt Albuquerque, Albuquer-que, goes on trinl here June 14, churned with lunnsliiugbler iu connection con-nection with the death of John B. Lassetter, state highway employee, the dingy little court room will be the center of -a drama that for three years has centered about the "stormy petrel" of N'ew Slexican journalism. When Judge Luis Armijo calls the court to order, many of the figures that have passed back and forth in the dramatic scenes of former trials will again be represented in the proceedings. ' Judge Armijo elected in-1924 over Judge Leahy, was district attorney at the time Judge Leahy sent Magee to jail on contempt of court charges, in July, 1924. He did not, however, appear in the cases against Magee. Judge Leahy having appointed C. J. Roberts and O. O. Askren special prosecutors. Leahy, always presiding in past trials, will appear this time as a witness. It was Leahy's alleged surprise attack on the editor which resulted in the accidental killing of Lnssetter, who attempted to intervene inter-vene and entered the line of fire. Sheriff Lorenzo Delgado, who escorted es-corted the editor up the little side street to jail in 1924, again will be officer of the court. R, H. Hanna, former supreme court justice, and veteran of many a Magee legal battle, will be in his accustomed place as chief counsel. Both Hanna and Fred Wilson, Magee Ma-gee counsel, have fought disbarment proceedings as result of previous trials in Leahy's court while representing repre-senting the editor. Wilson, junior member of the firm, is now withdrawn with-drawn from the case, having been appointed last winter as attorney general of the state. In 102:i, Magee was sentenced to a year in jail b.V' Judge Leahy on four contempt of court charges growing out of editorials appearing in the State Tribune. Previously, he had been sentenced to a' year in prison "and f in1, d $4,(XH) on criminal libel charge, (Jov. J. F. Hinkle issued iss-ued a pardon, characterizing the proceedings as a "blot on the stale." In. 1924. Judge Leahy sentenced : he editor hi three months in jail on three cornts, contempt of court charges. It was in this trial that the editor became the object of judicial ju-dicial epithets. Magee 'spent two days in jail before habeus corpus proceedings placed him in jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the supreme court which court upheld t lit? power of the governor gover-nor to issue a pardon for direct contempt. con-tempt. The editor was bound to the San Miguci county court on bond of .$10,000 furnished by Las Vegas citizens citi-zens on a charge at manslaughter. The first charge preferred after the coroner's jury had made its findings find-ings was that of murder. The Jcsser charge was preferred when the district dis-trict attorney filed his information. |