Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-14 | Page 2 | Court Hears Argument on Wood Appeal

COURT HEARS ARGUMENT ON ONWOOD WOOD tt M Motion tion to Reinstate Bill of Exceptions in Condemned Con SI Slayers Slayer's yer's C Case se Pressed Before Bench BenchAn sr An order vacating the order to strike out tho bill of exceptions inthe inthe in inthe the appeal of Omer Woods condemned condemned condemned con con- wife murderer was Issued by the supreme court today This reinstates the tho bill of exceptions and gives Woods' Woods attorney twenty days in which to file a supplemental brief The action means that tha the high court will review all of the evidence in tho the case when the ap appeal appeal appeal ap- ap peal comes up for final hearing Argument was made in the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court today In the c case se of ot Omer R R Wood who is under sentence sentence sen son tence death orl-death death for the murder of or his wife The argument was on a I. I motion to reinstate Reinstate t the e bill of t ex exceptions exceptions exceptions ex- ex which had heretofore been stricken on technical grounds Judge James F. F former chief Justice of ot the Idaho supreme court appeared with Thomas Ramage Ramage Ram Ram- age for tor the condemned man W. W H H. Farr Parr assistant attorney general represented the state The grounds presented for tor reinstatement reinstatement reinstatement rein rein- statement of or the bill of or exceptions were based upon the apparent omission omission omission omis omis- sion to have havo the proper order en entered entered entered en- en for the e settlement of or the document document document docu docu- ment within the time b by law 11 the failure to have such order filed med within the stated time being due it was ivas said to a a. misunderstanding The court cout took the question under advisement with a statement that It would announce its conclusions this afternoon The remittitur In the case of George Gardner convicted of or the murder of or Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stuart whose appeal for tor a new trial was denied by the court on March 6 G will be transmitted to the district court of or Salt Lake county on March I 27 tw twenty nty days being allowed be between between between be- be tween the date of ot decision and the transmission of ot the writ to the lower low low- er cc court A A question has been asked as liS to whether the governor can grant a a. a reprieve in the case of or Gardner or orIn orin orin in the case of or Woods The executive executive executive tive can only grant a reprieve un until until until un- un til the succeeding meeting of or the board boar of or pardons when the board must pass upon it Commutation of the sentence from death to life lite Imprisonment can only be made by bythe bythe the board of pardons and not by It It unless the governor agrees with the majority of of the board If the six I other members of ot the board favor tavor favora a a. commutation of of- sentence the same cannot be granted unless the governor go acquiesces I