Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-18 | Page 14 | George Slade is Given Vindication

District Court Sa.ys He Is Not Guilty of Registering Illegally. JURY ORDERED TO RETURN VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY I Federal Bunch Falls Dowu in Prosecution of American Ameri-can Yofcr. Acting under Instructions from Judco Lewis, tho Jury in the caso of the stale against George Slade. Thursday returned a verdict of not guilty of the charge of unlawful registration- Slaiie was charged with violating the election laws last tall by registering in the fifty-fourth voting district, when ho was not a resident of that district. Jt was alleged at tho time Siado registered he had not been a resident of tho fifty-fourth fifty-fourth district sixty days, as required by the slate statutes. In that ho had not that, long been out of the county in-llrmary. in-llrmary. where he had been confined for a period. C. V. Anderson, superintendent superintend-ent of tho. county Infirmary, was the complaining witness. In tho testimony, Leslie J. Alter, counsel coun-sel for Slade. brought out the point that. All's Mary G. Moore, the registration agent of Uie llfty-fourth district, had been appointed contrary to section 70.1 of the statutes of Utah, which says that it shall be the duly of the county commissioners commis-sioners to appoint ns registration agent of each election district a person who, at the. lime of the appointment, belongs! lo iho political parly which, in tho district for which suc.li registration agent is appointed, ap-pointed, cast the highest number of votes for repivsenlatlvc lo eongross at tho election next preceding tho appointment appoint-ment of sucn registration agent, nil's?. Moore admitted on Hie stand that she was a Itepiibllcan and Mr. Aker showed by the testimony that tho American party was entitled to a registration agent in that district, under the statute. Admission by Anderson. Mr. Anderson, superintendent of tho county Infirmary- admitted on the stand that he did not know whether Mr. Slade registered legally or not. He also admitted ad-mitted that Mr. Slade had made charges to the ep'ect that, ho had received poor food while an inmate of the .institution and had complained about the treatment which the other inmates received, as well as himself. During the testimony. "Mr. Aker brought out the fact that under paragraph para-graph - of section SOtf. statutes of Utah, a person must not be held to have gained or lost residence while kept in an almshouse, alms-house, or other asylum, at the public expense. ex-pense. TTo then showed that IUr. Slade had been a resident of Ihc Fifty-fourth election district before being committed to tho county Infirmary. Mr Aker further, in the testimony, brought out the fact that all of the Inmates In-mates of the county infirmary voted at the last election contrary to the laws of Tab; this, too, at the instance of politicians poli-ticians of the Federal bunch. The tcstimonv on the part of the state failed to show that Slade. had registered unlawfully, hence the court granted the motion or Mr. Aker, attorney for Slade. to Instruct the Jury to return a verdict1 of not guilty, and Slade was discharged.