Show REFORM NECESSARY Some time ago attention was called to the fact that an effort was being made to reform court procedure in this i country and dispatch legal business with greater celerity than now obtains Justice Brown in comparing our meth methods methods methods with those In vogue In England makes the th following striking observations observations A court co rt In conservative old England will dispose of a n dozen jury cases in inthe Inthe inthe the time that would be required here for fol dispatching one The cause is not far to seek It lies in the close con confinement confinement of the counsel to the questions at Issue and the prompt Interposition of the court to prevent delay dela The trials are conducted by men trained for tor that special purpose whose interest Is Isto Isto isto to expedite and not prolong them No Notime Notime Notime time is wasted In immaterial matters Objections to testimony are discouraged discouraged discouraged aged rarely argued and almost never made the subject of ot exception The tes testimony testimony testimony Is confined to the exact point at issue Mere Iere oratory is at a dis discount discount count New trials are rarely granted I A criminal trial is especially a serious business since in the case of ot a verdict of guilty it is all up with the defend defendant defendant defendant ant and nothing can save him from punishment but the pardoning power of or the home secretary The result Is that defendants rarely escape punish punishment punishment punishment ment for their thell crimes and homicides are Infrequent Why Wily is it judges In the United States allow lawyers lawera to defeat the th ends of ot jus justice justice tice by indefinitely Ind prolonging crimi criminal criminal criminal nal trials If the Utah laws are to blame in this state it would not be rv a abad bad idea for the coming legislature to amend them |