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Show SOT ACCOKDIXG TO THE EVI-DEXCE. EVI-DEXCE. H. P. Tuoruf was convicted today, to-day, in the Third District Court, of unlawful cohabitation. Let any unprejudiced person examine the evidence and he will be forced to tho, conclusion that the conviction was in direct opposition to it. There was no testimony to the effect that the defendant had ever visited the house of his plural wife. Tho case therefore rested solely upon the question of parentage of a young child. The ofllccrs who visited the Iiouso of the plural wifcnith. a view to arresting tho defendant, found the woman with a young child on her lap. They testified to this fact, the theory of Uie prosecution being that the infant was the child of tho woman wo-man having it in her immediate care Mrs. Hannibal gave similar evidence. The only other witness besides Uie officers Messrs. Vandcrcook aud Cannon and the other one referred to, was the alleged mother. Shu testified to the same facts as did the officers, but in addition that she had no children, all her little ones being dead, and that tho infant she was nursing when the marshals visited her house was the offspring of the legal "wife of the defendant. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The defense asked the court to set aside the verdict, on the ground that it was not based on tho evidence- The court refused to do this, slating that the jury elected to believe the testimony of 'tire officers in preference to that given by the woman. The absurdity or this declination of the court for that reason is apparent, ap-parent, as the verdict could only be based upon proof of the plural wife belngthcmotlierofthclnfant. The only evidence given on that point was her own testimony. She testified testi-fied that Uie child was not hers. The verdict was, in our opinion, an outrage, and the refusal to set it aside was, to our thinking, of the same nature, and unworthy a man cf Judge Zane's ability. "We believe be-lieve that had the defendant sot been a "Mormon" he would have been promptly acquitted, If indeed he would ever have been pursued by the minions of the law. Trial by Jury, so far as relates to "Mormons," Is practically abolished iu Utah. |