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Show Preparation a Crime. In the eyes of that great legal luminary lum-inary who knows so much more than the entire Sunremo bench, it is a crime for a judge to prepare an opinion opin-ion on a notorious zo&q which is sure to come up for settlement at the very threshold of the torm, We can readily understand why the careful consideration of a case, an examination examina-tion of the authorities bearing upon it, and tho utterance of an opinion from the written page, should render uuhappy a judge who professes to adopt the stump-speech style of pro-nunciamento, pro-nunciamento, and carefully avoids the examination of authorities lest they may appear in judgment against him. It is easy to escape the effect of unwritten words, and to declare that the short-hand notes of reporters were as "erroneous" as a Supreme Court decision. The honest judge who is not ashamed of his work, so prepares it that it may live after him and neither foists absurd, crude and unsustained opinions upon the world, I nor seeks to throw the burdens of lue errors upon the reporters of the prcs3. |