Show A JUDICIAL DECISION REVERSED titi THE supreme court of the territory today to day reversed the decision of the F first arst district court in the case of the united states vs barnard white of ogden city charged with unlawful judge powers delivered the opinion reversing his bis own ruling 1 the other members of the court concurring cur ring it will be found in another column lest there should be some mistake as to its purport and effects we dewil w i I 1 explain a little barnard white had two wives diana and jane F he married the latter about ten years ago if his I 1 S first wife ayin I 1 in january last in april he remarried re married his plural wife for the purpose of preventing her being called as a witness hiim anthe on the charge ot of unlawful cohabitation the new ceremony being entered into that their marriage might be made indisputable in the spurts but as the third district court had ruled that the legal wife was a competent witness when a crime caime was committed against her and that the taking of a plural wife is a crime against the legal wife mrs white was declared a competent wit ness by the first district court she was required to testify and her husband was convicted the judgment is now set aside on appeal and a new trial ordered LIU kin which sue cannot be made to testify no now w this does not affect the general question asto as to the legality of corn cell legal wives to testify in cases under the edmunds act mrs white was at the time of the trial the only wite wife abd nothing alleged against her hus bus band could be called a crime against her and theolea the plea that the parties had been married tor for the purpose of bentio venting I 1 her testimony does not avail for t this his is allowable in law as the court admits the decision will not affect the compelling of first wives to testify against their hu their case will have to be passed upon ou OB its merits before any change will be made in the present practice which is is au an n outrage on legal wives and a perversion ol of law jaw and established principles sciples which are essential to the wl I 1 of society |