| Show secured on an error possibly harmless what one of the supreme civil officials says or the pressure brought ti bear to put clifton E mayne in prison many ogden people will be interested in the following special dispatch to the j san francisco chronicle from los an selea under date ot oct 11 the deci eion of the court on the appeal of clifton E a convicted some two yeara ago of havica criminal relations with a girl named elsie shipton a minor reached the cily today tha decision contains among its opening sn bences a statement that there waa chent evidence the jury to authorize them in finding abe defendant emilty end bays their verdict thereon is not open to review ahm the older of a new trial is made on the ground that the lower court in admitting the entry of the girls age in the family bible on the part of the prosecution though just previously the opinion elates that the jury bad ample evidence that the girl was under toe statutory age of 11 of the admission of the bible entry it is eaid it was not competent for the prosecution to introduce a piece of substantial evidence evid ecce in support of this issue her watten declaration mace beveral years previously it cannot be eaid that was hardlee har mlee the evidence was not cumulative but waa of an entirely different character from any other evidence in reference to the childs ae and the jury may well have given it credit by reason formality and apparent authenticity which they would cot grant to a living witness who testified respecting her age the opinion which is by justice biar arieon concurred in by justices van fket and chief justice batty then holds that the appeal is dismissed but the judgment and order denying a new trial are reversed and a new trial ordered the allegation is made that hajne secured affidavits which were filed with the supreme court but which legally could not be by the autice ju tice by which it is claimed be was rai and the charge against him was made up by persons interested in compassing bis ruin an of the supreme court is reported to have eaid today no one will ever know all the powerful influences that were attempted t be brought to bear in san francisco 0 o cecur the final conviction of mayne |
