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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-05 | Page 4 | Suspended Sentences

Type issue
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Suspended Sentences
Type article
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text SUSPENDED SENTENCES THE HE suspended sentence is ono one of the thc most P peD pernicious c ous ideas ideas ever launched in the public mind ind Judge James W Y V. V said from his bench in in the Third district court Monday Judicial notice is thus thu taken of a prevailing P g o opinion P amon among g la laymen y men His Hie honor refused to listen to a plea for leniency lenient Y toward a convicted thief who had taken a thousand dollars' dollars worth of brass castin castings castings cast cast- in ings g from a aBin Bingham g ham mine sending Ig g the man an anup up for ten years The important thing in inlaw inlaw law late enforcement r the court said is to deter c crime ime and an this can only be done through gh pun pun- It comes almost with a shock to read such plain p lain s speaking caking n from the bench The n public has seen a long parade of offenders film filing g b by Y judges f for or a long time past Hit run Hit and run drivers drunken drivers killers r thieves and robbers and evildoers of all sorts have been in tho line lino of march Found guilty of their crimes Crimea all too have stood for many up sentence sentence sen sen- tence tenet only to be turned loose on the community com com- through suspensions It really doesn't make much difference to a criminal whether he draws ten days day ten months or ten years years years- i if the he sentence is sus suspended P ended Perhaps P s it will make a great deal of difference if J Judge Mc- Mc c- c s 's ideas concerning crime and punishment punishment punish punish- ment went gain general acceptance in our criminal courts
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