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Show i EXPECT DECISION m mi CASE j Supreme Court May Act in Appeal of Man Convicted of Blackmailing. Special to The Tribune. OODKX, Jan. I. Due to the announcement announce-ment that the supreme court of the state has cleared its docket of all important cases with the close of 1016, local attorneys attor-neys aro anticipating the announcement of a decision tomorrow in the ease of Joseph 1 lenry Martin, convicted blackmailer, black-mailer, now serving a life sentence in the state prison. This appeal has been under un-der consideration by the supreme court for nearly one year. The case was appealed to the supreme court by Attorneys John (j. Willis and David Ij. Stine after Martin wa.s convicted convict-ed in the district court for the ajleged robberv of Mrs. lsabello Wall.in and sentenced" sen-tenced" by Judge J. A. Howell to serve a life sentence. According to Judge Howell's How-ell's decision on sentence,, the life term was given because of Martin's previous conviction and five-year sentence for the shooting of David Kd wards. Before the supreme court Martin's attorneys at-torneys argued for a new trial on the ground of excessive sentence, that the previous conviction should not have been taken into consideration in administering punishment, the alleged illegality of handwriting hand-writing evidence and the introduction of evidence not concerning the crime charged. It is estimated that the costs to the state for the two convictions of Martin have already been about ? 1 r, 000. Much of this was expended for evidence by handwriting experts. Albert S. Osborne Os-borne and Theodore Kytka, two of the best, handwriting experts in the United States, having testified. |