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Show Will be Discharged. Ycstenlay Sheriff W. Brown, of Ogden, brought to this city and turned over to Warden Bock wood, Charles Mingo, colorwl, who was sentenced in the Probate Court of Weber County, last week, to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, peniten-tiary, for killing an engineer named Kenney, in November last. Within the next day or two Mingo will be taken before Chief Justice MeKcan, on a writ of habxis cm-pus, and discharged dis-charged from the custody of the warden, war-den, but will be held in a moderate bond for appearance in the Third District Court for trial, when the grand jury of that judicial institution shall find an indictment against him. Perhaps wc ought not to speak so positively, and say that Mingo tell, be discharged, but there are sufficient reasons for knowing what will be done in the case. We are authorized in saying that the writ will be sued out, which fact is equal to a discharge, dis-charge, on the ground that the Probate Pro-bate Court in which the criminal was convicted, has no criminal jurisdiction; jurisdic-tion; and binding to the Third District Dis-trict Court under the present nonjury non-jury system employed there is only another way of acquitting a person charged with crime. That Judge M c-Kean c-Kean will follow the path marked out for him when the case is called up, ! thcro is no knowledge, but a sporting man who knew the antecedents of our worthy Chief Justice, would take bets at fearful odds on the side of a discharge. |