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Show i ' Jlbies. The acquittal of Mrs.Fair; the recent commutation by governor Booth, of California, of the sentence of death, (hrico pronounced against Donnovan, to imprisonment for life; and the numerous instmces of the escape of convicted criminals through the meshes of the law in tho ea3tern States, have again criminated in the press a sericj of attacks and diatribes against the jury system. It ia not the jury, b-jt the court fy.tcm that is wrong. Juries arc so hampered by court charges, invented to evade the law, that thsy cionot exercise their cindid ju Jment ; or if they do, their decisions ara thwarted by appeals, motions for new trials, iDjuociion?,and the ct cetera of legal pro2;cdingi,bi3cd upon a liacssj interpretation of law, that nuke-' right and law and equity, subirdina'.c to flimsy technicalities. If le?j' responsibility i3 thus to bo made only amenable to tho crotchety whims of courts aud governors (the protectors ofcrixioil raids on soeicty) then, in the laD-unc of judi;c Gholaon, i?-dressedto i?-dressedto a pa'.icn! jury, when demand ing the conviction of a cold-blooded murdur, "if suh criminals arc to be avjuittcd, go (irbt,tcar down your court houses, burn up your law books, and let murder unrestrained talk abroad throuch tho land." |