Show WANTS HABEAS CORPUS Joseph W Sawyer Claims He Is Wrongfully Imprisoned UNDER EIGHT JUROR RULE DOCTORS LOSE SUIT AGAINST WESTERN UNION Verdict For Defendant Moseley vs Rapid Transit 7 Tlie Plaintiff Wins I Edwards vs Anderson Young Emil Levin Given Another Chance Short Orders Probate Rulings and Court Notes A petition for a writ of habeas cor pus was yesteruay niea in me aisinci court on behalf of Joseph W Sawyer In the petition I is set out that Sawyer Is unlawfully imprisoned In the state prison that he was convicted on Aug 31 1896 in Tooele county before Judge McCarty of the crime Qf incest which crime was alleged tohave been committed com-mitted 1895 with his own daughter in May I is then alleged that the jury before whom the case was tried was composed of only eight men which according to the state law is suffieibnt but at the time thfe crlme was alleged to have been committed Utah waS territory and under the United States law a legal jury must consist of 12 men and according ac-cording to the recent decision of the Unie States supreme court a defendant defend-ant is entitled to bd tried by such a jury as was legal at the time the offense of-fense was committed The writ was issued made returnable on Saturday next before Judge Nor cell r |