Show WAS CONVICTION VOID t District Attorneyship Law is Attacked POINT AFFECTS MANY CASES Case of James W Bodda Convicted in Uintah County Appealed to the Supremo Court on the Ground that the Law Creating the Office of District Dis-trict Attorney Was Not Constitutionally Constitu-tionally PassedUtah Sugar Company Com-pany Sued for Damages for Death of a Workman I i A transcript on appeal was yesterday filed In the State Supreme court in which the constitutionality of the office of District Attorney Is raised James W Beddo was convicted at Vernal last Monday of the crime of rape committed commit-ted on Lottie McCarroll a girl under tne age of consent and sentenced to five years imprisonment The Information Infor-mation was signed by S A King as District Attorney At 1 the trial Bed dos attorney E A Walton raised the point that the information was invalid and In support of his position contended con-tended that the act creating the office or District Attorney was an amendment amend-ment lothe former net creating the I office of County Attorney that the Constitution requires that when a statute Is amended it shall he set forth at length In the amendment while In this Instance the amendment was made by reference to chapter and sec tion or the original statute Judge Booth overruled the objection but intimated that the contention has some merit and that It ought to be passed on by the Supreme court If the point raised Is sustained It would have the effect of voiding ali the convict Ions in counties where the Dis trict Attorneys have superoeded the County Attorneys and necessitate the retrial of probably forty or fifiv men now serving terms in the State prison |