Show First District Court The trial of James Atkins for setting fire to A Stewarts house at Lake Shore in June was continued on Tuesday and given to the jury at noon At 3 p m the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged The prisoner was brought into court on Wednesday afternoon and sentenced sen-tenced to imprisonment for two years The case against George Japtera for breaking the toll gate in Piovo caflon was taken up on Wednesday and continued Thursday till 11 a m when the case was submitted to the jnry who returned aver diet of guilty The defense in this last case went to attack the validity of the road company and its right to collect toll the demurrer was overruled by Judge Blackburn after which the defendant admitted ad-mitted breaking the cato lock and took ex ccptions to the rulings of the court The case will probably bo appealed The appointment ot Judge Blackburn was confirmed by the Senate on the 27th of February and he received his commission commis-sion from President Harrison on Saturday last Since then his honor has really appeared ap-peared more cheerful than formerly Several of the mosttrivial cases from the lower courts were called for trial in the district court on Wednesday and on motion of the prosecuting attorney dismissed after the trial of John Bonnet for impounding impound-ing some horses resulted in his acquittal Those who at first formed an unfavorable unfavor-able opinion of Judge Blackburns legal abilities are fast changing their minds It would bo a little difficult to find any of those attorneys who protested against his confirmation now George W Hancock was arraigned on an indictment for the thirtytwoyears Payson riurder on Wednesday and pleaded I am not guilty PROVO March 131SOO |