Show NOT A COMMON REVERSAL tun TUB rebuke which the district attorney and the courts of utah have received by the recent decision ot of the highest legal tribunal in the theland land is a great deal wore more than an ordinary reversal of 01 a judicial ruling an attempt is being made to class it with the common differences on legal points between the lower courts and the higher but this will avail nothing with the thinking portion of the public they can see th in it the overthrow of a deliberate attempt to prostitute the axe la gaffor lor the gratification of personal a sturdy blow at the unlawful exercise of judicial authority a vindication of the rights of accused even though they are classed as mor mons to err to is human it to is nothing new tor for judges us as well as attorneys tu to make mistakes and no co man or official Is id to be severely condemned for au an unintentional blunder the intricacies of the law and its liability to different interpretations ions ious is proverbial the records of appellate courts are largely made up ol of points difference between judicial authorities but the case just decided which is but one out oat ot a very large number of a similar character in the 1 ansin aspect involved not merely a difference of opinion about the rendering of a clause or the definition of a paragraph but the liberties of men from false imprison imprisonment me an act of f congress limiting punishment for a certain often offense offence e to a given period was deliberately disregarded in ia that respect and the penalties were multiplied at the option of a vin fictive official and the courts of utah sustained this tais highhanded high dign handed outrage leeling feeling secure in their supposed immunity from supervision by a higher court what could be done towards blocking the way to a final adjudication by a court of review was accomplished shed but bat it was ail in vain the obstructions tailed and the reversal was complete the decision of the supreme court of the united states means that the courts here greatly exceeded their authority tho rity that they wen outside of the thela law vw fuat all who have thus been incarcerated beylus the time spec specified I 1 dd d by statute uru are to official il and judicial assumption and blat to gratify personal animosity expressed upon the bench beach the law gas has been trampled upon by those who claim for it the highest veneration the peculiarity of this case too is ie further marked by th the fact that the course of the utah courts was utterly indefensible the law itself is so plain that it is it not open tu to doubt the authorities ties and precedents are all against the course pursued there was not an inch of solid so lid ground on stitch they could base their theory and practice when the case came belore before thu deciding tribunal it could hot bot be defended on its merits there ws no attempt 9 at argument arg ament to show that the lawer courts were right or that they had any fair reason tor lor punishing men for violation of a statute beyond the penalties that statute imposed but the endeavor was made mad to prevent the court from inquiring lato the matter at all the jurisdiction question was sprung to stop investigation the plea was normade not made that the lower courts had such and such reasons for their remarkable mark lible proceedings roce edings but it was in effect you have no ne right to look into this affair no matter if the utah courts have declared that black is white or white is black you have no authority to question their decision the laci is the case was beyond defense and therefore obstruction was the only chance left for the attorney who appeared for the courts below therefore vie we say this is not to be with cases which dis disclose closta a mere liere variance of opinion as to the construction of terms or the bearing of a sentence in a statute but is in the nature of a complete overthrow ot a position posit ibn assumed by the district attorney and the district and aau supreme courts burts of utah in which they proceeded to punish persons without authority of law on the personal theory that the pui punishment Ashment in their view us ILA limited halted bylaw by law was inadequate to the offense in other words the attorney and the judges j did not noi look at it wita wila the same eyes as the wen men who made the law and then therefore fore they proceeded to make it operate to suit their own notions of vengeance against again offenders Ae fenders aders f we have no doubt whatever that tha t it if other questions ruled on by the utah court and involving the liberties ot of men could be subjected subject id to the same authoritative would meet with a similar reversal the corabi tation chameleon needs its dolors colors fixed ba by sticking a Sia supreme preme court pin t through ough it the absurd and contradictory opinions op inions of the utah courts on the same question render reader them open to ridicule and contempt they have stood as law because they could not be brought brou ht up into the higher light the th e obstruction to inquiry concerning them has been so tar effectual but the tremendous overturn which toe segregation question has aives to judicial judic fal assumption in utah oven age ats tho utter wrong a and nd error of 0 other important rulings bearing in the same direction at present there seems no relief from the difficulty but the presence of the evil is a constant reminder r that some I 1 means 0 be devised for fou remedy and the minds of the most intelligent and reflecting should be turned returned lathe in the direction of of its discovery it is the he proVi province oce of 0 law to right that which is wrong IQ in practice and it is certainly wrong that a palpable exist without a remedy |