Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-06-04 | Page 3 | Dissenting Opinion

Dissenting Opinion Judge Pardee In dissenting went further even than upholding the plea of Illegal extradition and that for the statute of limitations He says quoting quotIng quoting ing from a court decision d It is better that a person should escape altogether than that a judgment of conviction of an Infamous crime should sustain where the record does not show clearly that there was valid trial He holds that the introducing of the accounts of the defendants as documentary tary evidence should not have been al allowed allowed allowed lowed and that the charge of the trial judge was erroneous and In any ordinary ordinary ordinary nary case would warrant if not absolutely absolutely require a n reversal After Long Years Th The first indictment in this case was found in Savannah In December 1899 so that decision comes after seven years and nearly six months con continuous continuous continuous fighting against the govern government government government ment prosecution Greene and Gaynor can tan now each apply for a rehearing or go to the United States supreme court courton on Cn a writ of