Show DISCHARGE DISCHAR GE OF THE DETROIT PRISONERS 6 TUB detroit free press gave the following of the proceedings in obtaining the discharge of the brethren from idaho who were imprisoned d ii 1 the house of correction p Js ilder lorenzo snow of salt alt lake city was sentenced by budge judge orlando W bowers powers on january I 1 6 1886 for unlawful cohabitation the grand jury lived with two wives for a ering thirty five months and they found three separate indictments each covering a portion of the thirty five months the prisoner was sentenced senh seah upon h indictment for six months and wilne of in addition elder eider snow appealed to the supreme court of the united states for his discharge on the ground that the court had no right to sentence him upon more than one of the indictments and by his bis imprisonment after the first six months he was serving two terms for the same offense eff ense the cohabiting ha biting being with the same woman the supreme court held that judge powers had no power to divide tile the thirty five months between three indictments that the court might as well and on the same principle have found thirty five indictments one for or each of the thirty five flye months with am imprisonment rison ment lor for sev seventeen entee n years and 9 a line fine of or the court might as well have found indictments lor for every week ot of the thirty bye months with imprisonment for seven ty f faur ur years and fines amounting to and se on for smaller periods of time the supreme court therefore held that judge powers had no BO jurisdiction to punish in respect to more than one conviction and consequently discharged elder snow from imprisonment in the cases which were before th the e united states court here bete saturday the petitioners petition ers wre were ten tea mormon missionaries who biad h ad gone into the wilds of idaho ears ago and had con tenuously alvea anere lor periods ranging fro ni in ten to thirty years prior to the act of congress of 1882 with two wives and had bad praised by cach each large camilles amules of children the act of congress of march 22 1882 provided that this cohabitation with wore mare than one women woman would create a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of and imprisonment for six months and these missionaries on OB account of their continuing with their wives and children alter ane the passage of the law were brought before the federal court of af idaho territory and sentenced on an two indictments for the same offense to the house of correction in this city after their first term had expired being poor men their fines were remitted under the abr debtors act and by their attorney alfred russel they applied to the ibe court to be discharged discharge upon habeas corpus from serving out the second sentence the cases came on for hearing bearing before hon henry P F severens Se vereas judge of the western district of michigan who determined upon arguments that their cases were identical with that of f elder snow and accordingly ordered them discharged for the want of jurisdiction of the idaho court coar tupou lipOn thu tho second sentence |