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Show On T!:e 'J.li iustaui the ca-:e ol Wallace VVil'it-mjit, appealed from tlio deci&ion of the supreme court ol Utah, wad h v-i ,l before c he United Stales supremo court. It will be 1 remembered that Wilkcrsou wva tried for murder in tlio First dibtrict, buloie Judge Emtrson, found gui.ty, and sentenced to bo shot. On appeal the Eiipremo court of the territory atbrnicd the sentence. The caee was taken to tho United States su-premo su-premo court upon a writ of error, W'ilkerson's counsf 1 claimwig that the new pemtl cede ol Uuh dees not prescribe t'ie m inner in which the Bi'utence o( det!i ,-hil; he executed; .ihi'.t the court h-id no mtl.oriiy to a mi-nd t .e deft d of the I iw, and that, conaiqucutiy, he can, legally, neither be shot, hanged, beheaded, be-headed, nor put to death in any particular way. The case, and tho pointj involvtd in it, were thoroughly dUcjssed here at the lime the appeal was takea, norne of the lawyers holding thai the law being detet tive, Wilkerson wi 1 escape puniahmcut. Tlio decision of the supreme court will bo awaited with interest here, aa it will determine whether or not Hie iVain penalty ran bo intl ct:il in thia itrri ory without au amen Iment to the c le. |