Show 0 TECHNICAL DEFENSE Closing Arguments in the Packers Plea pea Piea In Abatement I Sept 38 Judge Humphrey t lay heard the closing c arguments in tIlt plea 11 of or abatement filed by the pack t s i against the indictment charging th thin in with illegal megal methods methode of conduct J 1 r business The court declared that h hue it was waa possible that he would L down his tie decision tomorrow it is ii Tint Tt certain ertain that he will do du so o The on which the abatement of or the Indictment is I sought by the packers are that the grand grant Jury returning the in ind 4 d was illegal because it waa wa not drawn as required by law tint the defendants d were deprived of ot their thir right to challenge the jurors that Ju Juge ge Bethea sitting nitting in the eastern division of the northern district dietrict of ot Illi Illinois itS nois had no right to receive the return of cit an indictment returned from the district of the same maine division khat that hat one member of the Jury was wa not note A e gaily made a member of that body and aid that the government officials had bad badIi ii tt i right rl ht to reproduce before the grand Jury a transcript of evidence previously heard by them and unverified 7 hut Fut ut presented as an abstract ab tract of the f evidence |