| Show A BRILLIANT JURIST TIMBER from which to manufacture a united states commissioner of the desired kind was very scarce in cache county but in order to facilitate the work of the crusaders a commissioners sio sto ners court had to beset be set I 1 in n logan andt last a stick was found upon which the ermine robe could be and has been hung bung the effect is more grotesque than when alien a lions hide is spread upon an aass back the wearer of the judicial garment is an individual who formerly sought long but unsuccessfully to find some female who would think enough of him to even send him to the penitentiary and now with a soul gangrened with envious malice he be does his best to send thither his more successful fellow citizens on the dinst a defendant named joel ricks was brought before this limb ot of the united states judiciary judi clar Y charged with unlawful cohabitation with his wives from the account we have received of the proceedings it ap pears that pat no testimony whatever for or the prosecution atlon was forthcoming sod and that no was had bad whereupon the defendants defend a antii attorneys attorney moved tor his bis discharge this judicial meteor who for the bi benefit 0 of f our oar cache valley friends Iri ends throws aig light hla u upon p 0 the law met the motion to die discharge c r g with the following somewhat startling ruling if mr ricks will produce the woman named in the complaint and prove rove to the court that hi be is innocent ge he will be discharged otheir otherwise wise the court feels satisfied in his bis own mind that there Is id cause sufficient clent to hold him 1 the prosecution is crippled by a lack of proof a certain female witness As wanted a circumstance not without precedent the officers not being able to find her are reinforced reed bybe courts court who coolly proposes to the defendant to produce the witness by whom the abe prosecution hopes to prove him guilty fulley and by that witness to prove his ats own innocence or r accept commitment as 94 an alternative I 1 it will be borne abrue in mind that up to the delivery of this decisions decision which so completely and violently reverses the order oi of crini criminal trials no investigation into the ch charge acae spinet the defendant had ileen been made and it was with some difficulty that the defendants fen fend ants dauts attorneys convinced tho the Commis commissioner doner that the prisoner was entitled to an examination before being in held whether malice or idiocy is the more prominent feature of the commission ers course is left for each reader to judge |
