Show ap pp PRESSING y FOR foe eoe for punishment ENT FOR FOP somo some inscrutable cause or th the tho a other some people in this community are excessively anxious for the punishment of other citizens so anxious that where it cannot be done fairly by law it is sought to be done unfairly by bylaw law by wresting the law from its manifest import and even without jawor ilaw liaw or shadow of law in the pa case se of george adyn i old oid F i sentenced the other day in the court couri of this district for imprisonment for far one year and a nine line of of mr It eynolds reynolds took an appeals i to the supreme court ban jsn pending olang which the court admitted him av to bail ball ia in this has seemed to excite the me ire fre of some parties who show that they are so blindly vindictive as to tv be anxious to transcend the juris jurls diction of the courts and punish tb the 0 defendant defenda n t whether he shall shail be ultimately adjudged innocent or guilty this is not an uncommon i trait with some people here but when bhea it attempts to invade the courts and obstruct and divert the proper course of justice it becomes a thing of more serious import the claim of these parties so interfering ter fering in this special instance was that the sentence of the courts court should go into immediate execl tion notwithstanding the appeal to a higher tribunal otis etis this claim ie fim preposterous for the following among ather reasons 1 there is no virtue in an ap appeal if the sentence must be previously exe executed cutell I 1 2 A prisoner or defendants hed bed tobe to be innocent until proved guilty and when an appeal has been taken and is pushed lie he can not be proved guilty until so adjudged by the court of last resort 3 to punish a man before he be is definitely adjudged guilty is neither ther then good law nor uon good common sense 4 it is bad enough to fine a man and collect the fine in an appealed case before the appeal has haa been heard beard and determined as though the thi money may be refunded in case ofa of a favorable result of the appeal yet even oven then I 1 justice injustice ii 19 is ia 19 done and joss loss accrues to the defendant in being deprived of the use biot of the money and also by reason teason of the sacrifices which ho he may have been compelled to make in obtaining the money to pay the fine flue 5 it is still worse to execute a at sentence of imprisonment upon a defendant who by his appo appeal al may ultimately be adjudged to be not guilty as in such a case no ade quate recompense can be made to tg him for the indignity privation and suffering thus wrongfully Y thrust upon him and his family 6 ifa if a sentence of imprisonment were livere to be put into execution before the determination of the appeal leali the term of incarceration might expire before the result 0 the appeal was had and then them wherein would bo be the virtue of the appeal the appeal would be a perfect farce from beginning to end 7 if ail all sentences were to be cat cir ried out pending an appeal from the tho same in in cases of condemnation to death how would a favorable result of tild the appeal affect the executed prisoner 8 if the aspect of this immediate execution rule iu in the last c ease case named is absurd it 11 should be rem rom remembered that it differs not in nature but in degree only from the other cases herein supposed POs ed |