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Show EXHIBITS I MARTIN CJSE CULLED FOB BY COURT Yesterday afternoon the appeal pa pers in the case of the State againBt Joseph Henry Martin were perfected and the transcript, together with all i In exhibits used in evidence, ordered transferred to the supreme court. The court also directed that County Clerk Harry Hales convey all papers and exhibits to tin-- clerk of the supreme court in person. Mr. Hales will perform per-form the duty today. The principal exhibits in the case arc the large drawings and pictures of the defendant's handwriting, com pared with photographic duplicates of blackmail letters addressed to the Eccles people, Mrs Dee Mrs Wallln. Mrs. Cuher and Mrs. Bristol. The drawings are in two wooden bo:ei thai will weigh about 100 pounds each. Explanation of the exhibits was mad ' to I he c ourt and jury by the hand writing expert of San Francisco. Theo-dore Theo-dore Ky tka. It is expeeted that the e r-.e will be reviewed by the supreme court during the October term, which will begin October 12 If the decision of the lower court on points of law is reversed re-versed by the supreme judges, the case will be remanded back for r trial, which will call for additional county expense It is said, however, that a reversal would mean the elimi nation ol much of the expert testimony testi-mony on handwriting In the second trial, which would greatly shorten the trial. Martin was arrested last December on the charge of assaulting one David Edwards, a Plnkerton detective, with .i deadl) weapon with intent to com mit murder He was convicted of as sault with a deeply weapon with intent in-tent in do bodily harm and was sen-tenced sen-tenced to a term of five years in the state penitentiary. oo |