Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-23 | Page 4 | The Stiffer Jolt

0 THE STIFFER JOLT 0 DISTRICT JUDGE MOFFAT did a most commendable thing tiling last week when he doubled the sentence in a drunken driving case that had come up to him on appeal from the city court City Judge Dalby had sentenced the defendant de- de to 45 days in Jail With nothing to lose Jose and a chance to gain the defendant Beckendorf carried the case up In the tile district court the conviction of ot the l lower court was sustained but Judge Moffat instead of letting the lower court sentence stand doubled it clay day giving Beckendorf a 90 0 sentence in the city Jail Judge Moffat's action is quite commendable commend commend- able able it should be used as a precedent j in all aU similar appeal cases There will be fewer appeals if the man found guilty in the lower 0 court knows ho is apt t to be jolted twice as hard if he loses his appeal in the higher court