Show the idaho law the following dispatch was received from washington feb 3 the supreme court of the united states today to day rendered an opinion affirming the constitutionality of the idaho test oath which is intended to prevent the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons 11 1 from voting the case came up on an application for a writ of habeas corpus made by samuel D davis who is in jail in idaho having been sentenced for fully taking the prescribed test oath when he was a member of the mormon church the court denies the application for a writ of habeas corpus holding hold that polygamy is a crime and t that nat the constitutional tut ional provision guaranteeing free freedom domol of religion is not intended to prevent the punishment of ony any person who in the ahe name name of religion g on commits a crime in the eydi eyes of the law davis was not a polygamist but simply a member of the mormon church |