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Show LAW CREATING JUDGE f OP OGDEN ATTACKED : Spiclnl to The Tribune ; I OGDEN, Dec. 31. That the state 1 statute creating the office of municipal I I Judge of Ogdon Is unconstitutional, be-J be-J r. cause It delegates to such officer moro l I rower thnn that of a justice of the w t peace, and Is contrary to that section of ij the constitution defining tho duties of W- the state Judiciary- Is the rather novel point raised by Halvorson & Pratt, employed em-ployed by David Woods, a negro, charged . . with forgery. In the district court this afternoon a I motion to quash the information against Woods was filed by his attorneys on j i several grounds, the chief one being tho 1 constitutionality of life statute creating the municipal court. I I Woods was Riven a. preliminary hearing hear-ing on the charge of forging the name of , I J. T. Rlttor to a check made In the lat-t lat-t . ter's favor by the H. L. Griffin company. "i V fie wns bound over to the district court "3 f y. Jl!aS Murphy of the municipal court : ; a few weeks aso. Tho defendant Is the i k 5teT0 wno nns frequently made positive j1 P. declarations that he was an eyewitness a .- to the shooting of Patrolman C. C Riley J I of Salt L:jI;c |