Show r A A Peculiar Coincidence Coincidence i HE jury commissioners of Weber c county if f news vs stories emanating from front at correct placed ced Sheriff and seven of his lils ten deputies deputies' on the Hie 1931 jury list Th The sheriff riff and presumably h his s deputies retire from office January 5 The Ogden co corre correspondent r does not explain why all ten deputies li ties j instead stead of f only seven were not selected ith their chief for this service service but but Ie lets let's s 's pass that ft It It It has long been understood in in Utah Ufah th tb that t pro prospective p tive jurors are selected at ra random dom from the tax rolls roUs and the reg registration lists and 9 the jury jury iy co commissioners missioners who make nake the s sele selections le tf ti ns are under oath not to be influenced l by any outside considerations like requests for placement At any any- rate that that- thatis is the law I S Aside from the oddity of f taking the re retiring retiring tiring tiring- sheriff and almost his entire crew it itis itis itis is dev devoutly to be hoped that we are not too i impolite in remarking upon what appears to b ba be bea I a very ivery ery unusual procedure Chances are all these eJe persons when placed upon a a. a venire I inky be challenged for cause especially I Ic in c criminal cases but that is merely a prospect which ch has to do with lawyers and their clients e What That impels a curios curiosity tY about the incident i iS iS' an uncertainty as to whether the jury commissioners corn com missioners mis departed from their oaths or whether the whole thing may be attributed one to-one ne of those p peculiar coincidences in p public pub pub- b- b lic service e which too often remain a matter of mystery in the public mind |