Show A JUDICIAL FARCE THE third trial of apostle lo 10 lorenzo renzo snow was nothing but a broad farce from first to last it was treated as a useless form except for the purpose of striking another predetermined blow at the head of the venerable gentleman whose family relations were outside the reach of the law but not beyond an ordered verdict many of the I 1 fjury ary had formed part of a previous jury that had convicted him upon the same absence of evidence to be offered in this case the witnesses gave similar testimony as twice before the charge was the same the verdict the same all ali was the same except that the counsel for the defendant simply acquiesced acquiesce in the proceedings know ing that the conclusion was foregone ne they did not object to the f illegal io jury ury they did not cross examine the witnesses except to save certain points on appeal they made no argument they uttered no protest there was no deliberation of the jury there was no expectation of a favorable verdict the whole thing had a cut and dried appearance the form had bad to be gone through that the result might be achieved but for that it was useless and the court might just as well have said the defendant Is an apostle of tae church there is no evidence of his bis living with more than one woman but it is necessary for certain reasons that an apostle should be punished under my jurisdiction and therefore as he has acknowledged that he has several wives and lives with one of them cohabitation with another will be presumed and therefore he is gulliv A trial would be only waste of biml time he will be sentenced cedon on the 16 emt under such rulings as had bad been given in the two previous trials for the same offense there was no reason to hope for a different result the defendants counsel who had done valiant service I 1 in the former trials were now entirely helpless they were not all allowed owed to show what was the law nor the ruling of the highest court of appeal the dictum of the miniature autocrat of the first judicial district was to be the law and that he be declared was final how much respect can the people of utah entertain for the judiciary impose upon them by arbitrary power when they witness such exhibitions of 1 is spite ite and malice of pettifogging ag and 70 double uble dealine of word twisting and sophistry of disregard of settled meanings an and defiance of the highest judicial decrees the three trials of apostle snow were rendered a mock eay of justice and a burlesque on law by the ridiculous rulings of the court and the last trial was but a L ham bam its formalities but a humbug its chief figures but actors in a play its jury but P puppets that jumped to the pulling ol of th the e judicial string the audience the public ab ic laugh at the show and hold old the whole business in derision while the laws of congress and the appliances of courts are duped in the manner which has disgraced the snow trial instead of that reverence and submission which cormons mormons Mor mona mons are expected to accord to national enactments and judicial proceedings there will increase in utah doubt as to the validity of the one and derision and contempt for the course of the other |