Show A VERY IMPORTANT CASK CASE hoy HOX F S left ogden this morning for the east he heis is on his way to washington to prepare for the case of lorenzo snow which is to come up on a writ of habeas habba s corpus before the supreme court of the united states on the of january he will wail be associated with the celebrated george ticknor curtis in arguing this important tant case and it will therefore be conducted with that care and skill which the friends of elder snow and of the cause of justice desire the main issue before the court is the much disputed question of segregation re brother snow has seir ved out the wrin term of six months imprisonment which with a fine of three hundred hollars dollars is the maximum penalty for the offence offense of unlawful cohabitation with which he be was charged but I 1 of which he was vot ot proven guilty he is now serving out additional time for which the law makes no provision but which was imposed upon him by the absurd and arbitrary ruling of the utah courts we say he be was not proven guilty of any offense that Is exactly correct he was accused of cohabiting with more than one woman and I 1 it was proven by the witnesses for the prosecution that he nad only cohabited with one since the passage of the edmunds act yet he was convicted because of the peculiar hulln rulings s of orlando W powers then on tae the bench but now going down aown to the oblivion that he merits the injustice of this convict conviction ioD however is not before the court of ei review but the right of grand juries to segregate that which the law has made one offense into many of fences at will Is the question before the court this will be argued n both sides with vigor and we hope will be decided with ith that impartiality that should rule in a court acourt of the exalted character of the highest tribunal in the land we have strong hopes that justice will prevail and that brother snow and others who are affected by the same ridiculous and oppressive rulings of the 1 utah courts will receive that relief which a favorable decision will bring to them T the he case is in able Iti bands ands and we hope that when brother richards Eich ards returns it will be with boyf joyful a tidings we wish him every success in his bis onerous task at washington |