Show 1 I THE SNDW CASE Before the Su It is Now v preme Court ARGU1EXTS BY IRICHARDS Strange Murder Bits from A Ve7 ICTfiaAn YeV Insane Young Man Jumps from a Train The Snow Case WASHINGTON D C January 20 bpccal to THE HERALD in Snow came on iLe case of Lorenzo this afternoon and the supreme Court F S Richards began the opening lion argument and will l conclude tomorrow argG the attention of the court ted He arrested and inquiries irom the start from the a favorable under indicated iu < 0es which made were of the points Standing forcibly Marcy will follow and cl any will close lichards and Judge Curtis y interesting Mormon case entitled An of Lorenzo 1 Ex parte in the matter and appellant came fcnOff petitioner in the United States for argument up bupeme Court this afternoon LOEEJZO SNOW I Mormon citizen of the appellant a Utah was indicted tried and found guilty of three separate charges of unlawful un-lawful cohabitation with seven women whom he called his wives The coliabi tation is said n each indictment to have been with thfe same women but the indictments cover different periods of time one being for the year HiSS one for 18S1 and the remaining one for the first eleven months of 1885 The prisoner was sentenced in each case to six months imprisonment in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of 300 and costs and the terms of imprison theJerms ment were made consecutive each to begin as soon as the previous one terminated After Snow had served out his first term of imprisonment he applied ap-plied to the Third District Court of nah for discharge upon a writ of habeas corpus on die ground that he had committed only one continuous offense and that the judgments in two of the cases were void He maintained that the court which tried him had > 0 KIQHT TO SEGREGATE a continuous offense into separate and distinct periods and then try to punish him three times for the same alleged crime The District Court however I decided that upon his own showing he was not entitled to dischargeand therefore there-fore denied his petition for a writ of lianas corpus From that decision he has appealed to this court |