Show DELBERT GREEN LOSES APPEAL Slayers Slayer's s Fin Final Hope i 1 Pardons Board Delbert Green condemned Utah I sl slayer lost his lila newest appeal appeal from a death adeath sentence Friday I state supreme court refused to or or- der Second der-Second Second district court ant Green Greena sanity hearing Tho The action leaves Greens Green only avenue of escape from front a a. firing squad up to the state board of par pardons dons which will consider for commutation of sentence its at-its meeting The high court held that the th new newstate state code of criminal procedure does not apply after judgment has hIlS been passed and that the tho defendant dant dan has bu no right 10 of appeal from refusal of the trial court in the thC Second district to order a sanity sanIt hearing and deny a in arr arrest st o of judgment If this were not tha law said Mid the high courts court's ruling the state would be impotent ever to execute a convicted felon as aa every time a convicted felon appeared before the trial court he could urge a reason for arrest of judgment and perfect an fin appeal to this court Thus a n convicted slayer could play a game of battledore and shuttlecock between be be- tween the trial court a nJ d court The ThO law tolerates no such ch procedure pro pro- f 9 The opinion was written by Justice Jus Jui- Jui- Jui tice W. W H. H Folland H.-Folland and concurred in unanimously |