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Show ALLEGED LIBEL OF COURT WILL BEA1HEDT0DAY New Mexico Editor Facet Judge for Publishing Alleged Al-leged Reflections Upon Supreme Court Justice ' TRIAL ATTRACTS WIDE ATTENTION Many-.PeUtions'Aslf Got-rnor Got-rnor to Act in Securing Impeachment of Alleged , Victim of Libel LAS VEGAS, r M, July 10 (By U. P.) O. O. Aakaran, aaaelal araa-ecutor araa-ecutor far San Mituei county, de-manaaa' de-manaaa' IKa auapanaian frem praa-tie praa-tie af former Judge Richard H. Hanna, ehief eouneel far Carl 0 Magea, Albvaueraue editor, In open eeurt today, preliminary ta tha trial af Magee far alleged oentempt af aaurt. Aakren dealared' that Hanna waa "tryina tha aaaa in publie," threwoh maea maaainga and newepeper ar tiolee, and that ha had "forfeited all right ta appear in any aaurt af law In San Miguel eounty. I "l havw na doubt," aaid Judge David Da-vid Laahy, "that tha aaurt hae tha power ta take aetien Immediately an tHie matter. Inetead, I ehall make tha return data Friday, July IX." J LAS VEOAR, N. M., July 1. Cart C. Macea. editor or tha Alhu-auerque Alhu-auerque Tribune, waa to appear before Judye David J. Leahy of the Blchth Judlrlal dletrlct today, to anew eauee why he abould not ba punlahed for puhllehlna In hla newapaper allewea! renectlona upon tha eourt and Ita Judge. Maee maintalna that tha freedom of the freea la Involved la the prooeed-ne. prooeed-ne. . Tha atatamaafa altered to aonetl tvva ooiaieajipe ihat e arawn owr' affile af-file trial md coaviction of aiarre on eharaee af erlmlnally lllieltnt rrank W. Parker, chief Jntih-e of tha atata auprema court. Thle oaae waa tried before Judre Laehy and, after the Jury e vwrdlet had been returned, the editor waa aentenced to eerve alfhteen moniha at hard labor In Ihe atata penitent lory. Magee Ma-gee alieced that tha Jury which tried him waa eompoeed largely of Bpenleh-Aimrtcane, who could not underetand tha lana-uage contained in tha article alleged to have libeled li-beled Parker, and that hla conviction convic-tion waa a "franieup." Both tha aiata and the defenee will ba repraaented In today-a pro-eeedlna pro-eeedlna by men prominent In the legal profeaalon in New Mexico. Magae la defended by Richard H. Hanna, former Juatlce of the atata aupreme court, aa hla chief eouneel. Judge Hanna will hare the aeelat-anca aeelat-anca of Fred C. W'lleon of Albuquerque Albu-querque and M. K. Noble of U Vegaa. Tha proaeeutloa'a llet of attorneye la beaded by Clarence J. Roberta, former Juetloa of the auprema au-prema eourt. Tha dietrict attorney. Lula E. Armlio, alaa will re pre -aent tha preeicutlaa. which will be aided by tha aervleaa fa O. O. Aakren, Aak-ren, former attorney general of hew Meiloa. . . Tha aaaa probably haa created wider Inter t than any tried 'In recant yemra la New Maaloo eourta. Handrada of petition, have been aent la Governor Hlnkle aektng him , to call a apedat aeaalon of the leg. lelature for the purpoea of having that body aa a court of Impeachment. Im-peachment. Tha governor, how-aver, how-aver, haa declared ha will take no notion la advance af tha dlapoea of the eaae toy the atata auprema court. I ' .. |