Show WYOMING A inagi one wy but farther light eai yie jan 30 kincai mckinney tha cattle thief was ea fenced to years imprisonment in in the penitentiary e in the of jamea brantner charged with cattle stealing an important ruling was made by judge scott upon the plea in abatement made by Brant nera attorneys the ground taken by Brant ners attorn erys in the plea was that the alleged crime had been committed ou auguar 1 and that the law prosecutions by information had nut been passed antil january 10 eliat the law in ita re lation to the pruner mas an ex post facto law and th unconstitutional and that the prisoner could not be tried OL an information the court ruled that laws relating to procedure only were not ex p at facto laws and that no nyhus belonging to llie prisoner had been taken awa by the information lair iii the cabe brou glit up tor trial later in the day the hame pica waa made audra scott stated that some authorities had been submitted to him after he had overruled the plea in the brantner case which had changed his of ane law in relation to the matter the authorities were directly in point aej decided thai at the time a man commits a crime he must be indicted by a grand jury before he can be tried no law passed subsequent to the commission of the crime can deprive him of that right under this decision it ia possible that the pria onera now in custody here who committed crimes prior to the passage of the present law may obtain their release J W reek the bigamist was taken to denver this afternoon by detective colby on a requisition issued by the governor of colorado |