| Show WOKS LONS LIKE A MISTAKE la ILS the tee criminal branch of the third district court coarl on judge upon receiving a plea pies of guilty from a young man charged with burglary and am the focused waiving time to which he bewab we eni entitled titled for sentence aen tence ordered the young man imprisoned in the ibe state prison for fifteen month A little later on the judge directed the sentence to be met ami commanded dad the culprit to appear this morning ng at which time shue the be term ot of imprison met was vaa fixed at two tw bearb whatever may have been the inspiration which moved the court to this increase inore aee of punishment the effect will not be to In increate inore creame aue respect for judicial ludi Jud olal iclal consistency oon eltten either in the mind ot of the convict or of the public who note these pro by the first sentence ile the court had conveyed direct to the prisoner an idea of what to expect and the increase Inore aee of that pun lehment cannot but awaken in the mind of the culprit a vengeful feeling and in the mind of others othero a measure of contempt for such vacillation in the mind it the sentence had bad been made lighter on the second oc occasion celon it might have aroused a sense of gratitude in the culprit as an an exhibition hibi tion of judicial mercy but BB as it 11 ili i the impression to la one of severity ee verity which does doea not lis inspire spire added respect ct because it lit ia it looks an ae though the judge has baa erred the wrong way in exercising his bis discretion |
