| Show LAW AND COURTS NOT RESPECTED So Says Say President Howat to I State Bar Association 4 1 NOTED MURDER RECALLED 4 APPEAL BY STAT STATES S SENATORS TO ARDON BOARD I PEOPLE dO not r ct the In Inthey law lawI TUE I they do not nat respect the and V the court courts dO not them themselves themselves selves Wil was the tho ass assertion ot oC President Andrew Howat at the annual of the State Bar Association of af Utah which was evening held In te the federal court room last Mr made the principal address of the evening and It was the course of af his remarks that lK he alluded d to the almost total In Indifference of the of aC the state to the fact that ther there are laws Jaws on an the statute books for their protection ad safeguarding Ife Ie sid said that there vas deal Vas a great of disrespect manifested the law Jaw Rn and the courts charged wih with Its operation but buth buthe h he could scarcely hold the people sible Ible when the judiciary did hot the dignity of af the co courts ard and did not insist that proper respect should be man manifested toward the pO positions they held heldI I have in mind said Mr Ir Howat the case or af one ane Nick Haworth who Was ne ac cured Ufe a few years agO of one of the mot most murders ever commit committed ted in this state Ho by ablo counsel men Inca of pronoun d The Th trial lasted for fO five weeks And there ther wa was a large array of witnesses The Tho jUl jury was s with te the greatest of Care car and the prIsoner had th the benert benefit of af al alt the machinery of ar the court court corn cam wih with the law Jaw to prove proe his In If such a thing cop be done don donNo NO effort was spared to make I it a fall fair trl l In every sense of af the word ord The jury jur brought In a verdict of oC guilty ef ar murd r In the first d degree gree an and thoUgh It had the right to u l that the punishment be meted a out t hr bv con confining fining In n the for life I it made mado nO such recommendation and Haworth was sentenced enten ed to be exe cu td I Appeal From Fram senator en Dolliver A few Cew days das before the order of the court was to have hae been carrie carried Into of ef effet fet feet the board buard of met and a petton petition was Wag submitted asking that the sentence be commuted to life imprison imprisonment ment meat At the saro same time a J published a statement to the that Senator cm Iowa hat had telegraphed Senator Smoot and Senator I Reams earns asking them to Use their In Influence fluence to hao hao the sentence as requested In the petton petition Such a r Quest dons wa was made to the tho boar board or of par pardons pardons Now I 1 ask what what right ha has an any 3 person not a resident or of the state to Interfere In the execution of af the law in inthis inthis this state It does not speak sneak wel well for for forthe the respect we owe owe the law and our u Jr It the machinery of af the law 11 i ito to be Interfere interfered wih with by a person out outside outside side the state And more than that that respeCt which we owe aWe te law aw I Is te materially lessened 1 If men of af prominence within the borders of af QUI our tate state who know nothing of oC tp th case In paint point are permitted to Use their effort to influence the judgment of aC those whose duty duly marke marked aut out I la this pat pt tEenier hse ase as J I said before before the do de hAd ever every opportunity to his hh Innocence If such a a thins thing was sos sible Al All th the facilities of oC the court ourt were at hi his disposal al mOre than GO GUO typewritten ten sages of testimony were taken the ju jur wal wat selected d with especial ore oare h wits WAS defended by able Ue the tia triaL isted five Che weeks and when hen time the cs case wan wa given to th the jury the thern charge of oC th the judge WAS Impartial in thE the fl face p of of al all this pr persons who were ere I not present in court during th the trial and who perhaps were wre only acquaInted with th the evidence us as they gleaned It the of Oe t tm a ay lAUr Wol J fu n com lance wit with th rIU of thes the senator ator from fram t td fil file hi his wih with their In sPort of the v petition for of the sent sentence ne of ar tile The re redal dal paper h firt first made PU public lc this fact at th that the eA was be fare fere the bord hoard tm or of added that In 31 all ranted probability the pelton be Convict Brought Braught IntO Tow Town T l know OC tf another C ease e the petton petition of a convict whO was I doing time in th the Ho He wald wanted a mem memI 11 her of th the b beard ard Of pardons to conme and I see hIm but the gentleman I refer to towal wal vas too busy busy to the the jour journe ne soy and io a ho he had the prisoner brought down an t tO lis i of office nee Was Vas that Wright To o certain extent the hoard board ot o pr par pardons dons was nUe allied to the of the state was J It proper respect to the rt fol for tIlls this member of the b board t to have hae 1 sentenced man brought brought down to tobiN his biN office I I 1 have n no faul fault to find with the bord board I I of pron pardons as a gener 1 rule rul hut mit I dO think ink that In ha cases where a C conviction ha has been found after an exhaustive ox ex animation Uon of o time the char charges o to the members should slowly before giving a aman aman man ht hi liberty simply to comply with the request of persons who merel merely state that they think the accused has been sufficiently punished for the enormity of his crime Ir If a a man is 15 sentenced to serve term of af throe years for n a crime after the case casc ha has been tried and tt t the tho expiration of af sa say twelve 01 or eighteen months makes make for fora a pardon I do 0 think the judge whO sentenced him Is treating the courts In Ia generl general or the judiciary th proper re respect I If he approves the tol thou tar for pardon I it Is just such instances a as these which h cause the people at large Jarge to that ct which they hav have for t the e law and the cOur When rhen Continued on P Page o 2 LAW AND COURTS NOT RESPECTED Continued front from Page 1 the courts respect themselves then we ma may expect the tho people to have a more wholesome respect for Cor the law and for Cor the which were organized for their l were also read on Th l Philip pine P n I Code by H ft W Young and Sime L Legislative CorrectIOns by Geor Geore e II H SmIth Charges Against Lawyers hc committee on grievances reported that all the testimony had been taken concerning the es Ricy Jones and that It was ready to be sub submitted submitted to Referee Goodwin who waS al b by th the s prem court tf t pass paIlS upon the In the matter of expenses for conducting the inv investigation It WAS voted that the association nay lIfty all the charges har es and that the legislature bp be asked to the association fot fOI such part thereat Ji aj should l be borne by the state V 1 Snyder M I TI I i sue J Barretto were appointed d LL a to m mke ke th motion effective and to also Iso draft a law to c cover er simi similar lar cases in the future It wa was stated that Francis G Luke 1151 beCil bringing ln suits in the town or of Murray Murra peo e In SnIt Salt Lake City and It voted that the committee C 1 a athe th the state of the law investigate the mat matt matter t ter r The folloWing named members were ap 1 a committee to arrange for the annu annual l banquet P J Dub Daly t chairman Le Grand Young W van ran Cotto Cott J h 1 Letcher and A T Sanford The ban list will bo be some time during Feb Ten ne ri members were ere elected luring during the evening thus bringIng roll roB up to 6 The nam d officers were elected to serve for tor the ensuing year par L Williams of Salt Lake City Vice judg i ot of elch of the seven judicial distrIcts of the state The hp jud Judge c for the Third judicial district which comprises SRI Salt Lake City Js is ri Lewis nn In some ot of tb the cont sta have been made and un uni une until til i they e are settled the present s ir edre tf beats n will l be e the respective vice e pesi dente donte Walcott acott Thompson Treasur I L N Q Executive L Baldwin Allen T Sanford George H Smith II H HH H Hnderson Henderson and D D Houtz the lat mI latter mIter ter from Provo Committee on grievances p r I Sn Snyder J H Hurd md Grant IT H Smith The members of the supreme court In Including Justice Justic D N together with the judicial district judges were elected members |
