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Show Aoain, tue Pro ii ate Courts. Judge Boreman, yesterday, rendered his decision in the John O'Neal habeas corpus case. Judge Boreman, probably, has never had tho supreme felicity of reading the numerons and longitudinal opinions of oar Hawley wiping out probate courts, but he believes be-lieves in their spirit and subs tan c. Fie takes about the samo ground that judge Hawley did that the probate courts havo not criminal jurisdiction, and so relieved warden Kookwood of the care of Mr. O'Neal, who is returned re-turned to tho bosom of society neither a sadder or a wiser man, but a good deal of a thief with a hoary layer of a murderer underneath, unless the record and tho evidence did him gross injustice. injus-tice. Wo need scarcely review the position taken by judge Boreman; that has been done repeatedly in these columns. The question has been argued before and submitted to the supreme court of the United Slates Washington branch but a decision by that tribunal has not been given. When it docs come, wo expect it will bo seen how little tho judges of the supremo bench know about law, and how much superior is the knowledge possessed by tho juriss with whose valuable services Utah has been favored. |
