Show A WRONG PROCESS anh result of the trial of the cronin case is incongruous the penalty is not in keeping with the verdict the assassination was one of the maest cold blooded and barbarous of modern times the jury found that three of the persons charged with the crime burke coghlan and were guilty of murder as defined in the indictment and pronounced a penalty of life ife imprisonment por for such auch a horrible deed no HO punishment short of the extreme penalty of the law was adequate consequently the verdict and penalty wore were at variance the reason is ia a somewhat common one the conclusion of the jury was the result of a compromise one man held tenaciously for acquittal while eleven stood for guilty and the death penalty upon three of the prisoners this position was relatively maintained until the eleven succumbed so far to the isolated juryman as to reduce the proposed death penalty to life imprisonment this aspect of the case raises the question as to whether the efforts made by state attorney long necker to eliminate all of the corrupted element from the panel were entirely successful anyway the result is not a satisfactory vindication of the law which does not admit of compromise verdicts in criminal cues canes as such euch a production is not based upon the conscientious conviction regarding the nature of the evidence of the jury who are entrusted with so grave a matter as human life necessarily the friends and enemies of the murdered man are both dissatisfied but that is neither here nor there as their views are necessarily the extreme of each other the intelligent public will regret the result more on the ground of the way in which it was reached than any other nt not being by due judicial process |