Show NOT YET DECIDED Habeas Corpus Case Submitted Submit-ted to the Court MCANNE FOUND GUILTY Young Jackson Committed to the Reform SchoolHe Thinks it Will do Him Lots of GoodOther Legal Business TUESDAY AFTERNOON City Marshal Ballard of Payson was the first witness in the McCn case keeping his saloon open on Sunday He testified that be knew where the defendants place of business was located The building where the business busi-ness is carried on has two rooms one a bar room and the other a pool room At about 11 oclock on Sunday June 3d 1894 he had seen over twenty men and bojs go into the saloon Marshal Ballard named a number of the men he had seen enter the place He did not know how long they were in the saloon Mr Bingham gave similar testi money The defendant took the stand and testified that the saloon had been opened about 11 oclock on the date named He and his bartender had been there and the butcher had brought in some meat ordered by defendant I de-fendant Two or three other men had also been admitted they had come there for the purpose of asking for a Mr Patton W Colvin bartender for Mr Mc > nne testified that some men had been in the pool room but had not been in the room where liquor was soldAfter arguments of counsel and instructions in-structions from the court a verdict of guilty was rendered The habeas corpus case against Sheriff Sher-iff of Uintah county was next sailed up The writ of habeas corpus had been issued commanding Sheriff Searles to bring George Hinton into court Hinton was confined in the county jail of Uintah county in expiation expi-ation ot a yerdict rendered by Justice E Ilarmiston of Vernal for misdemeanor misde-meanor Messrs Iloutz and Anderson appeared for Hinton and fhurman andSA King for Sheriff tiearles The application for the writ was made upon the groundathat the justices court had no jurisdiction in the case for the reason than the complaint did not charge an offense The complaint charged tlntf on the 15th of September In Bush creek Jmtuli county the defendant de-fendant committed a misdemeanor by entering upon the property of Louis Ward and holding possession of the same bv threats and profane language by saying you I make you move the house off the ranch before I get through with it The complaint further alleges that defendant came inside his forclosure and started to build 1 house and was notified by complainant to remove the same but refused to remove it The case was nigued bv Mr Houtz and authorities cited to slow that the words force and yiolence were necessary to be used in order to make the complaint yalid A further allegation by defendant was that no judgment bad been rend dered and it so it was so indefinite as to bevoid Mr Houtz read from the transcript of the justices docket which stated that a jury had found a verdict of guilty on the first ballot and that de tendant had been sentenced to pay a fine of 8500 and costs which amounted to 116 65 or for each dollar ot the fine and costs to be confined in the county jail lor one day Mr Houtz argued that the judgement was faulty in not proviJing that if any part of the fine was paid the imprisonment would be lessened by such payment Mr Thurman argued that the objection ob-jection to the complaint raised by Mr Houtz was not one for an action of habeas corpus but was a case for a court of error In regard to the sentence he held that it was such as could be understood and that this was sufficient Court adjourned before the arguments argu-ments was closed further hearing to be continued this morning OTHER BUSINESS In the case of Caroline Black et al vs Hvram Dewsnip et al Receiver Follard was permitted to buy staple merchandise to an amount not to exceed ex-ceed 30000 for the purpose of better enabling him to dispose of the merchandise mer-chandise which Jie has in possession as receiver WEDNESDAY FORENOON Nearly all the forenoon was taken up in hearing further arguments in the writ of habeas corpus saga s-aga nst Sheriff Searles Judge King took the matter under adyisement till 2 OCIOCK Wesley Jackson aged seventeen the eldest of the trio brought from Lehi charged with housebreaking changed his plea of not guilty to a plea of guilty if it was housebreaking He had gone into a cellar in a house in Lehi and taken a shirt which he did not think was any harm His attorney attor-ney Mr Dudley asked that the defendant I de-fendant be committed to the reform school City Marshal Karrens was I present and waij asked by the court if the boy had been charged with any offense before He replied that he had been charged with a similar offense previous to this Judge King remarked re-marked that he did not know whether it would do the boy any good to be sent to the reform school Young Jackson broke in with the remark that he thought it would do him lots of good After some good advice the court ordered the young culprit committed to the reform school THIS AFTERNOON Judge King announced when court opened this afternoon that he was not yet fully prepared to give his decision in the habeas corpus case He would do so later in the day Catherine Johnson was granted a divorce di-vorce from Hans Johnson Plaintiffs testimony was to the effect that she had married defendant about fifteen years ago and had lived iu this city since that time Seven years ago defendant de-fendant took a notion to leave and went to Colorado He had only sent her 50 for her support during that time Mrs Johnsons testimony was corroborated by her son The decree was granted and the plaintiff was given custody of one minor child the issue of their marriage The property was divided as by stipulations between the parties |