Show 2 J LAWSON DEMANDS HIS LIBERTY ON BAIL Brief Bi for Release of Labor Leader Filed in Supreme Supreme Su Sw preme Court xv DENVER DE S Sept pt 13 Brief Briefs were filed in the Colorado supreme court today toda r regarding the proposal al to ad admit admit admit ad- ad mit mit mitto to bail John R. R LaWf LaWSOn on former strike lead leader r. r now now in n jail at Trinidad Trini Trint- penitentiary sentence on onn ona lad dad under n a che chere che ge of or first degree e murder Since Lawsons Lawson's conviction con the supreme court ha has granted a supersedes in Jn his case and al also o has hat Issued a writ of uC prohibition barring Granby Hillyer th the trial judge from presiding in fu future future future fu- fu ture strike trials In granting th the the court left them the matter of ot ball bail to be decided after the hummer Bummer recess rece Attorney General Fred Farrar in a brief re resisting reiting the admission of ot Lawson Law Law- son on on to bail ball held that tIit as the defendant defend defend- ant had been convicted con d of ot first degree degree degree de de- de- de gree murder he hf Ii should be kept in confinement nt pending action b by the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court when It reviews re the thc case case- I Ion on I its iti merits The brief said As shown b by the record In this case cue not only Is the proof evident e hut Al also o the presumption I is great gnat that tho the offense a 0 as charged in the Information mellon mation was committed The rhe brief on behalf of ot I. I Lawson aw On Onas was as prepared by Horace N. N N Hawkins and Edward P. P Costigan It declared that the supreme court has authority to grant ball whore the defendant has no not been condemned to ct death ath and th that t in the past it had been customary custom custom- a al ary to admit to ball hail when a supersedes super super- 8 sedes deas h had d been granted The further argued that having ing barred barred Judge Hillyer from future strike trials the court almost certainly would re reverse rene ne- ne nethe the Lawson verdict on that point If on no other |