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Show Whisky and Dollar Evidence Barred in . Prosecuting Case The notorious half-pint of 1 whisky and a marked dollar. uel by Salt lake City in Its prosecution prosecu-tion of Mia. R. . Jones for violation vio-lation of the liquor laws, cannot b Introduced In evidence when tha appeal of the cane h heard in Judge 1 B. Wight's division of the . Third district court. . J urine Wight's ruling of two weeks aa;u that tha evidenc would be Inadmissible Inad-missible was confirmed yesterday . when he denied a motion of Shirley Shir-ley P. Jones, former aiatant city attorney, asking tnat his previous ruling on the Introduction of evidence evi-dence be stricken from the records. rec-ords. 1 The whisky and marked dollar were taken from Mrs. Junes by membera of the police an tl vice squad, who mad a raid on the ' rooming house she conducts. The police had no search warrant. Mrs, Jones waa convicted of selling liquor In the city court, after the bottle of liquor and the marked dollar, alleged to hava been used by one of the officers to buy two drinks of whisky, had been introduced ss evidence. The casA was appealed to the district ! court, a jury trial had. and the case ordered retried when the Jury failed to ugree. The second trial has not been reached on the criminal appeal cases of the city court, which are heard by Judge Wight Attorneys for Mrs. Jotes two weeks sko filed a petition wltn Judge Wight, asking that the bottle bot-tle and the marked dollar be aup-pressed aup-pressed as evidence and returned to Mrs. Jones on the grounds that they were obtained by the Illegal entry of officers into her home and by the Illegal search of the premises prem-ises and her person. Judge Wight, from the bench, expressed an opinion opin-ion in conformity with the petition. peti-tion. Tha city's motion that the opinion be atrlcken waa argued at length before It waa submitted to the court. |