Show TWO DIFFERENT homicides THE relief afforded the murderous deputy wm thompson in we trie indictment lor for manslaughter by the grand ury which he selected and to which his hi case was referred by instructions i from district attorney dickson provokes a comparison with another case of homicide handled by the same grand jury A week or br two igo ago the stait startling ling pews news reached this city that W H halliday at kanab had shot and killed ailleo joseph dobson who had seduced Hallia Halli days ays wile wife popular sentiment justified the killing because the villain ohp thus takes that which is dearer than life is considered bortay only of death this feel feeling lingis is not confined to the people of utah it is general throughout the land but the he same grand jury that has virtu virtually all y turned loose the assassin thompson who without provocation and without excuse shot down and slew a peaceable citizen citizen in cold blood finding a simple indictment for manslaughter indicted the avenger of his bis cifes dishonor is ho for mur murder in the first begee degree the mar murdered dered dalton was wao a amor mormon the ane executed dobson was a genaue that explains the difference and suggests a reason lor for the diverse indictments WO we have shown from the itaf statutes utes beyond question that thompsons Thomp sons crime was not manslaughter either voluntary or involuntary and that on his own admission coupled with the testimony of eye witnesses it could only come within the definitions of murder under the law but let us look at the the legal provision in a case base like Halll HAllid days ayls homicide is dec declared to be justifiable when committed in mk a sudden heat beat of pass passion i on caused used by the attempt of any such offender to commit a rape upon bs wife e daughter sister mother or otner ftuer female reia relation tion or dependent or to defile the same or when the defilement Is factually adt lually committed 11 see compiled laws p here then is a vase case which seems to come under the legal head bead of justifiable homicide and the accused is indicted for murder in the first degree for he be slew a gentile adulterer in the other case fits the offense except the statutory definition of cormui I 1 ur dero god and the defendant Is indict indicted lin lor for manslaughter for the murderer killed a mormon Is any further comment required |