Salt Lake Herald | 1897-07-03 | Page 1 | In Great Confusion

= 8 e IN GREAT ONFUSION Everyone Connected With the Dur rant Case in a Quandary San Francisco July 2he Durrant murder case ha resolved Itself into a state of such confusion that i will require the combined efforts of the state and the united States supreme arod for tet ePf courts to restore it to Its proper legal condition I is rumored that Governor Budd contemplates asking the state supreme court for a writ of mandate to compel the warden of San Quentin prison to j execute the sentence imposed upon i I I Theodore Durrant on July 9 the date I under which the murderer was reprieved re-prieved This is out of the question however as the supreme court does not meet again until the second week In July While the state officials appear ap-pear to be in a quandary Durrants attorneys insist that the appeal to the United States supreme court acts as a bar to any and All proceedings In the state courts pending the decision of the higher tribunal I