Show SUPREME COURT Will DECIDE IT Juvenile Courts Jurisdiction Will Be Passe by Highest Tribunal CAN HE PUNISH ADULTS HABEAS CORPUS IS SUED OUT FOR EMMA The decision of Judge Lewis in the district court that the juvenile court has no jurisdiction to try adults for offenses because the juvenile court act makes no provision for trial by jury will be t sted jn in the supreme court The test case was Instituted yesterday when an application for a writ of ha habeas bean beas cOrpus for Emma who is serving term In the county jail un under under der sentence of the juvenile court was flIed filed in the supreme court The latter tribunal has orIginal jurisdiction in ha bears corpus cases Justice William M McCarty Issued the writ and made It returnable April 23 Attorney Benner X Smith who de defended defended fended the jurisdiction of the juvenile court when it was attacked before Judge Lewis appears on the other side of the new case He made the application application tion for a a writ for Miss It Itis Itis is probable that Attorney General M A Breeden will appear for the juvenile court In the new case I Part of Same Trouble Judge Lewis decision was rendered in the case of Carl Baughman and Al AI Miller who were sent to jail b by JUdge Willis Brown of the juvenile court for contributing to the delinquency of a girl of 17 11 years Judge rudge LewIs turned them out on a 8 writ of habeas but Miller was at once rearrested on a felony telony charge The woman was mixed up in the same case and was sent to jail for the same offense as Miller and Baughman She Slie did nt join in their application fora r t of habeas corpus before and that is why her case Is now being leIng used to make a final test of the power of the juvenile court The woman was released from the county jail on hr her own re recognizance recognizance cognizance yesterday by direction of Justice McCarty The supreme court cannot take up her ca case until April 23 and meantime she would have served her sentence By releasing her pending a hearing her sentence will not begin to run again until the supreme court on the habeas corpus matter If It dIdes f ldes against her she will h have ve to Sf out the balance of her sentence Gets Threatening Letters The girl in the ease case Is In the state Industrial school at Ogden Her moth mother er called on Judge Brown yesterday in much perturbation complaining that she had several threatening letters The gist of on one wAS ws that Miller who is now confined in the county jail charged with ruining the girl was about to give bonds so that he could marry marr the woman and thus prevent the latter from testifying against him The other letter declared that It be shown at the trial that the therl rl Ii was of bad character before Miller met mft her ber It was thIs letter which gave the mother the most trouble JUdge Brown dId his best to reassure her herMiller Miller confessed his guilt to JUdge Brown when he was up UD on the charge of contrib contributing ting to the girls delinquency c cy He orr ed to marry the girl but Judge Brown refused to sanction the marriage on the ground that Miller was wasa a prizefighter and a floor manager of ofa ofa a dane dance haH ball and because he belfe believed ed that Miller would woud desert the girl at once |