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Show "Jueoe McKean's Latest." Uuder this caption a brief communication communi-cation will bo found in another column from "A Spectator." Had tho reason given by the Judge for the overruling Mr. Miner's motion been given by any other court we would have been surprised, sur-prised, but in this instance there is no longer room for astonishment. Tho case was one brought under the Territorial Terri-torial statutes, so held by tho prosecution, prosecu-tion, so ruled by tho court. The Territorial Ter-ritorial statute provides that in all j criminal cases, escopt for capital offences, the jury shall pronounce the verdict and fix the sentence. The statute specifying each crime says within what i bounds that sentence must be confined, by which the jury must bo governed. Wo cannot charge the court with ignor" ance of this simple fact, which the veriest tyrp in legal knowledge, who has referred at all to the statutes in question, must know; and the publio can decide on tho reason why such a position was taken by tho court. The ' several States in whioh tho law is the same should send for this very pro-I pro-I found and impartial jurist to straighten out their legislative blunders. |