Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-05 | Page 11 | No Light Matter

4 t No Light Ma Matter ter I t tj i 0 EARL CARROLL has been sentenced to to serve one year in Atlanta prison and pay payS S afine a. a fine of 2000 for perjury committed committe in connection the famous bathtub party rC arroll arroll of course will appeal the case ease for tile s simple reason the that jail sentence makes a as s serious rious affair of what up to this time has been bee I more or less a G laughing matter Perhaps it itis ita I a is S time that the tile bathtub incident had a little serious consideration The Tue party in itself may have been indiscreet but in these days of I sophistication it was not a momentous scandal No doubt this is why efforts were made to laugh it off I A The giving vin of false testimony however is of serious import No matter how trivial the be issue at law may be be the commission of perjury is a serious offense Perhaps the thein in individual may justify a false oath with his Own wn conscience but the courts courts' in gene general 1 wOuld v uld lose all of their power and strength if they sacrificed the ri right ht to demand the truth and nothing but the truth from every witness appearing before them Perhaps the public temper would have forgiven the Carroll party if the issue of perjury pers per- per s jury had not been brou brought ht into it No doubt 1 if would have shocked many good people but still stilt the public sympathy would have gone ou to C Carroll if he lie had been sent to jail for this offense and nothing else The giving of false testimony before an established court however made something else out of th J I Carroll entertainment It was an all affront to toI toa a a sacred institution and one which could no not I be conceded to any individual without seri seri- 1 busly affecting the dignity of our courts is offence which has often v Perjury an too been t en passed lightly over It affects the rights I o pf every individual wh wild who may be called before Oie courts and to that end it sh should uld be rj rigor rigor- or gusly excluded from the record of our courts I l It false testimony can be adduced at a tt trial ft r o j r hearing without inviting punishment eventually even even- it will be impossible for the tile to decide issues on their merits In matters of j jaw v only the truth should be admitted and every movement which runs counter to to this to jd Idea i should be vigorously punished j