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Show Newspater Legal Criticism. As an illustration of the good taste or go-xl discipline of the Lnglish newspaper news-paper press, it may be mentioned that during the whole progress of the Tich-borne Tich-borne case a case which has probably excited more univfrsal interest than any other during the last half century the newspapers have carefully avoided avoid-ed discussing, in any manner the merits of the controvercy, but have confined themselves solely to a statement of the evidence from day to day. Had the case been on trial in this country, every newspaper from Maine to Georgia would have resolved itself into a tribunal for summary disposal of it on the merita. The rule that it U a contempt con-tempt of court for a newspaper to discuss dis-cuss the merits of a case sub judice has so long remained in abeyance among us that the press have come to regard themselves as infallible arbiters in every cause, civil or criminal, worthy of their notice. This is an evil that we presume there is little hope of escaping so long as our judges depend for a renewal of their terms of office on popular suffratie and newspaper influence. influ-ence. Albany Law Journal. |