Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-13 | Page 7 | Judicial Idiocy

JUDICIAL IDIOCY J BF J IA has b been n startled l by y the dec of f one n o oit of oft STAi t it i 3 te ta 1 ll e case ca of a tardy medical med l witness Th Tit court dYde dK lod that it to Is better that thaL one patient ilent die than that contempt be shown ho hf 1 c curt urt by a witness in late hUe This is out bout as a piece or of f e as ever left teft the lips Ups of judge e j or Jackass The dignity of courts should ooh aI be 00 maintained at a t all ll 11 reasonable cost but when the tite dignity lt of lan any in m institution has baa to be toe maintained at the peril of ot a human life ll it is time ft for r it to toHru Hru struggle lf Je along alone for f a little time with less Jeas dignity d ity and more humanity As A a rule the Judicial benches of the country are filled by toy men of 01 sound sounds s n nse ne e who maintain the dignity of their courts by ie l e In teU and fair fairn m n 3 g of f the th decisions t i At iare intervals however from different pert parte of the come brays such as this one and these thee do more to take take away aay the T I he dignity di ity oC of t ne ftc tie corts than all aU the cases of contempt that tardy wit n s can pile up against asai themselves For instance I tance it Is not very ty lon long OD ago age g ginee since inee an eastern Judge held that the die life of a babe was 88 worth only a aThE 1 i iThe The wonder er of ft tt all is how such Arh m inspired idiots as 85 these ever cv ever managed to bo acquit acquire e enough law and an su popularity po ty to get upon the bench be b