Show extrajudicial EXTRA JUDICIAL proceedings OUR readers will doubtless be interested W te in perusing the letter of our Blackfoot correspondent which appears in this issue it seems that col thomas E ricks of rexburg Rex burg has been a special object of judicial animus indictments have been plied piled up against him but have been wiped out because for substantial reasons they would not hold bold our correspondent states that the grand jury came into court reported that there was no more business before them and asked that they be discharged instead of the court complying with this request it granted a motion of the district attorney for the dismissal of an old indictment against mr ricks and sent the jury back to their quarters for the sole benefit of the last named gentleman they th ey speedily returned with another indictment diet ment against him for unlawful cohabitation on this presentment he was forced to immediate trial the request of his counsel for time to prepare being ignored there was not a peg of evidence upon which to hang a conviction yet he was convicted had he not been the jury would have gone in the face ace of the instructions of the court in charging them the judge is alleged to have overridden every rule and precedent that stood in I 1 n th the e path of the atiat attainment n of the object in view the conviction of the defendant among the impediments swept aside were various rulings of the supreme court of the united stat states we understand from private sources sotir ceS that the judge w who bo after the tb e flames flamed of mitzi ai I 1 I 1 mormon P 9 prejudice have subsided somewhat doubtless doubt lem sees how deeply he has put his foot into a judicial quagmire is engaged in revising shig and correcting his charge to the jury before it reach reaches the general public he cannot however very well wipe out the facts of extraordinary proceedings in this case the cause of this extra ju dacial operation is touched upon by our correspondent correspond eDt the defendant is president of a stake of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints it appears that in the absence of competent evidence this fact was sufficient to warrant his conviction even if the forms rules and principles of law had to be ignored and be set t aside in order to accomplish it such I 1 instances stances ti of flagrant I 1 injustice nj as this should close the mouths of any class disposed to assert that the mormon people have no DO good cause to te complain of wickedly unjust treatment at the hands of prejudiced officials what they want and all they ask is that they receive equal justice under tinder the law with all other people of this S republic to that they are entitled and they will not cease to complain against flagrant instances of departure from this essential element of just government |