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Show 1 V Sensational Affidavit In Sjosttdt Case Jurlor (illchrlst Compelled to Hlgu Verdict of Guilty Against Ills Will. Sentenco In tho case of American Fork .City against Oliver SJostedt, in which tho defondant In tho district court wns convicted of Intoxication, has been continued till January 19, whon Attorney II. D. Thurmnn, foi tho defense will movo for a new trial on tbo grounds of misconduct of the Jury? lnsurriclent evidence to Justify tho lerdlct and. errors In law In the trial to which exceptions were' taken by the defense. In Support of the misconduct of the Jury nn nffldavlt by one or tho Jurors, Robert Qllchrlst, ot Lehl, has been riled. It sots out that from tho evidence evi-dence Mr. Ql'chrlst becamo absolutely absolute-ly convinced of tho Innocence of the defendant and only consented to a verdict of guilty upon being led to understand by his fellow Jurors that such a verdict, with n reccommenda-tlon reccommenda-tlon to mercy, would rcsu't In a minimum fine, without any Jnll "Sentenco "Sen-tenco ; that his (Mr. Gilchrist's) phy-slcnl phy-slcnl condition, nt the time tho Jury was considered the case, was almost unendurable, and that ho felt the necessity or getting tresh air immediately. imme-diately. The affidavit closes: "I Immediately, Immediate-ly, without solicitation, voluntarily roportcd to counsel for defondnnt that the verdict ns rendered wob not my true verdict; that I didn't then, nor do, I nowf bollevo tho detendnnt guilty. "Had I been a well man and pbyBteMbab4eJong,oiiiduye,thft fBjpiiinTirrirX1 -pttkib 'WRSH' of brlb'or during, our ' deTlberntlona by some of my rellow Jurors and this tact, coupled with my physical weakness, weak-ness, prevented mo rrom doing my duty as a Juror, and with tho explanation ex-planation I wnnt to npologlzo ror my-mistake." my-mistake." -v |