Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-07 | Page 2 | Judge's Pardon is Sought by Jurors Who Used Liquor

J Judges Judge's dge's dge s Pardon Is Sought by Jurors Who Used Liquor Five Women Four Men in Panel Admit Sampling Evidence j Are Given Lecture LOS ANGELES Jan 7 AP AP- AP Nine Nina jurors five of f them women who were discharged from further jury duty in municipal court for drinking the evidence in a liquor C case caso IIO and then acquitting the defendants de de- defendants may be given another chance Municipal Judge Thomas Thomas L. L Ambrose Ambrose Am Am- Ambrose brose who discharged the nine with a sizzling lecture lecture about about the tue sacred duty of ot citizens as Jurors indicated today that lie ne might re reconsider reconsider reconsider re- re consider his action because eight of ot them had appealed to him tor Jor judicial forgiveness The ninth juror A. A A. A Hulester from front the excitement oc occasioned cc c- c c by the tile turn of affairs yesterday yes yes- and could not join his hll colleagues colleagues col col- colleagues leagues in the appeal The five women most of ot them their I middle aged admitted to Judge Judg I Ambrose that they had partaker partaken L of the bottled evidence Of ot thEr the I eight some said they had barel barely r tasted it It others admitted they had hac I taken lalen a drink while the remaInder remainder remain remaIn- der tier confessed they had helped I themselves on the second round The three other women jurors I making up the panel panet of twelve denied denied de do de- de nied to Judge Ambrose that they thel had touched the liquor In the words of ot the judge however how how- ever the bottle went to the jury jurl p room quite full and came bac back very much depleted Bailiffs told the court the call cal I for the ev evidence was made by ey rev- reveral oral cral of the jurors soon after artel they r reached the jury room The Tue Jury Jurl C deliberated for foe three hours before acquitting George Bevan charged with sale and possession He made entrapment his ills defense The prosecutor told the court in ina ina ina a verbal attack on the action of the jury that the customary time for a municipal court jury to deliberate deliberate de de- de- de liberate in a liquor case was only a few minutes He said sald it was unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary un un- un- un necessary for the jurors to sample sampe the tile evidence because attorneys I had stipulated that the liquor it contained w was ws s intoxicating