Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-18 | Page 12 | What is Justice?

Ii 1 W What hat Is Justice Il I Q l LLis T is justice 1 WHA Vaguely our people believe it is something some some- thing thin o determined after a n day in court Only when hen they begin to s strike rike comparisons do they lose faith in the law Justice may be anything from a a lecture to a life term if the actions of tho the courts are to determine the conclusion Here in Salt Lake the other day j justice stice was done in the police court A man n was vas fined 10 for driving an automobile on the wrong side of a safety zor zone e striking a aman aman aman man and failing to report the accident to the proper authorities In San Francisco at about the same time justice was rendered in another case A Ayoung Ayoung young man was sentenced to serve five years sill in prison and pay d 4 fine for running away away from the scene of an accident without stopping to render aid to his victim In these respects the two cases parallel each other although the cases cannot be called identical In the San Francisco case the boy who was hit died so 50 that the traffic offender was was required to stand trial for manslaughter Ho He was convicted on this charge also and sentenced to serve from one to ten years in prison In Li the Salt Lake c case se no death occurred but there was nothing in the record to show that the motorist knew his victim was vas not I severely hurt It could have made no particular particular ular iular difference if he h had d for the law is dir directed against the person person who fails to re report 0 port an accident irrespective of the damage t done Idone The San case cas might be compared comI com- com I i pared d with at least one Salt Lake case of recent record One case is recalled where a driver river under the influence of liquor run rundown down dow and killed a boy He fled from the scene of the accident He didn't stop to give aid to his victim and he didn't report the accident Rather he gave battle to those k who ho pursued him His caSe cage was almost an ct parallel for parallel for for the California case until i lt got to the courts As we remember it his hisA A sentence was suspended and he was directed o pay pay a certain amount of money to the relatives of his victim 1 What is justice 1 perhaps it depends on where you are and j i tIle the influence you can command in your behalf be- be half lf Certainly these cases indicate that juse jus- jus e Rice fi is as blind as a bat The judicial eye which looks over Utah must be blind to what goes r. igo goes s on in California Justice was outraged somewhere somewhere If it wasn't in California it was in Utah and the responsibility rests with those who are arc supposed to be her most ardent Ju L J 1