Show THE RECENT TUB THE chicago herald makes the following sensible comment on the recent dej casion in the snow case i B by me the judgment just rendered by the federal ral supreme court hl ha the case of snow convicted of unlawful cohabitation under the edmunds act the courts in utah will be given a check in the infliction of penalties penalty es which will not militate in the least against the administration ot of justice AS advised in the past the territorial courts jave have been using their own discretion in trying try ing men for unlawful III cohabitation making maki g the offense consist of anything sug suggesting gestin such and ft dividing it up into periods so as to inflict the extreme penalty in contina I 1 ing sentences aggregating in some cases several years of imprisonment whereas where asUnder under tile the law the maximum punishment is prescribed as six months in the penitentiary and 30 fine the supreme court now dow that the offense complained of in each case must be construed as consisting of all unlawful acts up to and include i ing the one for which the prosecution is had and that cumulative sentences q ces for a continuous crime divided into periods are not to be permitted the decision is of importance as a showing wit wi what zeal and harshness the new bew laws are enforced in utah where juries are regularly packed and where a mormon t once accused has ha about as much chance of ae even it if innocent as ae brigham Y xoung duag has of rising ain 11 from the dead de adone pun ashment for one crime is enough for any offender even a mormon |