Show RULING av Y SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON Nov 1 A l.-A A mat marts constitutional constitutional constitutional con con- rights are not necessarily violated violated vio vio- because the jurymen trying him on ona ona ona a charge of murder are arc allowed to separate separate sepa sepa- rate lah and to read newspapers during the trial it was held yesterday by the suprEme supreme supreme su su- preme court of the United States The court held similarly in regard to the refusal of a judge to send the jury out of the courtroom during arguments of tho tiro admissibility of evidence Furthermore the court laid down the rule that the act of requiring the accused ac- ac to put on a coat alle alleged ed to have been worn when the crime charged was committed did not amount to requiring reQuiring rec ing lug the prisoner to testify against himself him him- self These points were made in the decision deri deci- derision sion sian of the court in refusing to interfere interfere interfere inter inter- fere with the sentence of life Imprisonment imprisonment imprisonment imprison imprison- ment imposed by bv the federal circuit court of western Washington upon upon James H. H Holt Holl on a charge of having having having hav hav- ing murdered Henry E E. Johnson In Fort Worden Vorden barracks Washington In announcing the opinion of the court Justice tice Holmes says ay that the trial judge had gone to the limit in th the exercise of his discretion in the trial but that he had committed no reversible re error JiNo No No doubt the more conservative course course said Justice Holmes is to exclude the jury during durin n- n the consideration tion of the admissibility of confessions but hut there is force in tho the judges judge's view that if rf the juries are arc fit to play the part assigned to them by our laws they will be able to do what a jUdge has hasto hasto to do every time he tries a case on the facts and wo we cannot say that hewa ho he was wa wrong in thinking i that the men before him were wore competent for their task In regard to the jury separating during during dur dur- ing the tria trial Justice Holmes said that if the m mere re opportunity for prejudice and corruption was to raise a tion that they exist it would be bo hard to maintain jury trials A As to tho the coat Incident the justice made tho the remark that the principle underlying un un- this objection would forbid a jury even en to look at the prisoner and compare his features with a photo photo- graph |