| Show IS HE A contemptuous obstructionist decision of the US U S supreme court in the snow case which smashed di district strict attorney Dick sona sons segregation theory was a tremendous snut to that despotic functionary who has been acting the role of judicial dictator to the courts of utah the highest court of appeal asserts that the system inaugurated by mr dickson of finding a multiplicity of indictments or counts against a defendant for fa one continuous offense to is without legal precedent the authorities running entirely in the opposite direction it is a secondary snub to the district attorneys satellites who have been playing thumbs up to his dictum in the anti mornion Morn Mor woul iou I 1 crusade it is barely possible that those that have been performing the puppet part for the wily attorney whose subtlety has however overshot the mark may learn a little by late events so far as lie he is concerned however howe how vei evev it la is difficult to believe that thai as long as he is tu entrusted trusted with power any ny circumstance circum siance will ever change him into anything more or less than a jirgal uld and obstructionist if he could coula dodge around even a US supreme court decision what reason is there for pres presuming 1 aming that he would not resort to tactics ot that character it may be put in a stronger light than thit that by laying laving down the proposition flatly tuat he has bas done and dogs does do it according to our way ox of looking at things in the case ot or murphy against the utah commission the supreme court of the united states asserted that the polygamous status is not criminal this being kae he case it cannot be legally interfered with in the face of this enunciation mr dickson po on asserting to the contrary and insists that isitt it esthe is the autv of a polygamist to sever the marital connection with 11 his IS P plural ural wives in other words to break up the status the highest tribunal bunal OX ot tile the land having a asserted 8 he non criminality of ef the polygamous status that position tion is one with which the Ii district strict attorney has no business KraDick sorI continues to show what appears from our standpoint to be his contempt for the superior court under still another decree of that tribunal in the recent decision sion in the snow case the court says the offense of cohabitation in the sense of this statute Ed edmunds law is committed it there is a living or dwelling together as husband and wife this his being the case it follows as a logical sequence that the offense is not committed unless there is a dwelling together as aa husband and wife yet yei no longer ago than yesterday in a case of this abi character the district attorney insisted as a reason why the defendant should be convicted that he had not severed the marital connection lection with his plural wife or in other words bad not broken up a status which the court of last resort declares to be innocent and therefore beyond the reach of interference by the law under which the defendant was tried it is to be expected thai that the district attorney will feel dogged and malicious such men as lie he generally act out their natures unless their stronger tendencies are modified by a regard for correct principles but it was hardly to be expected that he would manifest what we esteem to be a persistent er contempt for the dec decisions lIons of the highest court of the land as by that course he be jeopardizes whatever of legal reputation tio may be left to him after the terrific inroad made upon it by a high and unanimous decree directed against the cruel and unprecedented constructions of law formulated by him and adopted by judicial satellites |
