| Show difference OF OPINION the celebrated habeas cor pus case came up in the supreme court this week As will be remembered shot and killed JUDGE TERRY at a railway station in Lathrop california last year to prevent him from taking the life of JUSTICE FIELD in fact had been detailed by the united states to accompany tho latter and serve as a body guard for trouble was anticipated the question of the guilt of has not been eo prominent a feature to say the truth it has been the common opinion that he did just right in defending the justice that he did what would be required of any citizen of the united states who might have witnessed the attack the main thing isby what he bo tried the state of california arrested to try him under their law but the case was brought before ahn federal court on a writ or habeas corpus in render ing ithe ionson this question the judges differed socratic members held that the case should bo tried in the state while the republicans held that the federal court had the power to try the case this is difference of 01 union but it has elways been the tendency of the ee publican party to concentrate power in the federal government while the democratic party desires tho rule to be as much as possible with the people it was shown that there exists no law whereby a man can be detailed to act as a body guard to a justice but the intent and meaning of the law is that all citizens are always j ready to protect the courts and preserve the peace and dignity of our government it further appears that the law cannot work both ways even admitting that was acting as an officer of the government for as LAMAR says in the dissenting dess enting opinion if the net of terry had resulted in the death of FIELD would the murder of him have been a camo against the united states would the government of the united State all its powers of which wo have heard so anch in this discussion have been competent in the present condition of the statutes to prosecute in its own tribunals the murderer of its own court justice or even to inquire into the heinous offense through its own tribunals |
