Show JUDICIAL during this week jeppe fulkman of gentile valley theodore keller of mink creek oneida county band and bent erricson of preston onema county have been convicted of unlawful cohabitation tation and B M fulmer of oxford charged with adultery acquitted the main feature however was the trial yest aday and today of thomas K E ricks on the usual unlawful cohabitation charge brother rieks has been the subject of indictment 0 of f all the IT U 8 grand juries for years when business was dull and they wanted a little recreation they put in their time indicting inducting indic ting ricks the rhe indictments piled led up and got so voluminous anta and numerous that at several terms of court the united states district attorney has been compelled to dismiss noue nolle and otherwise dispose of a lot of them solely for the want of government facilities for storage capacity this thing went on so unguardedly that the united states officials accidentally ascertained they had disposed of all except one which though ancient and flyblown fly blown they thought sufficient to satisfy a properly instructed tri trial alJury jury but jim kimball Kiin ball ricks attorney discerned a hole in the indictment about the size of an ordinary U P box car and put in a plea of once in jeopardy former acquittal ax barred by the statute of limitation and a few other defects A few minutes after this was d done one the U G grand jury came in into to court reported their business finished and asked to be discharged not much mary ann and his honor on the aile motion of the district attorney dismissed the indictment against ricks and submitted resubmitted re the case to the present jury refusing to discharge them as they requested they promptly brought in another indictment the following morning and immediately forced ricks to it a trial ag against debt the protest of his attorneys who alln n vain asked for reasonable time to prepare in the hurry of getting out this indictment the word did in the charging clause did cohabit was omitted thus charging no off offense eDse anil and objection was made to the introduction of any evidence under it but his bis honor benor hold held it only to be a clerical omission and evidently good enough for a president of a stake so the funeral ceremony was ordered to proceed the corpse being provided and me abai ence having gathe gathered the show allow must muot go on ou on the trial the evidence of the prosecution prosecution rose cution was absolutely nothing 0 not an lota iota of testimony was brought out to sustain a single material allegation of the indictment tile the defense having nothing to rebut refused to introduce any testimony now came the interesting part of the comedy the judges judged charge to the jury ry it distinctly antagonizes the doctrine hitherto adv advanced aneed and enunciated in several decisions of the supreme court of the united states it ought to be framed and hung up as an interesting relic of total judicial depravity and a companion picture for the idaho test oath of course the jury brought in a verd verdict letof of guilty and had they not done so they undoubtedly would have been fined for contempt of court or ought to have been an A n appeal will be taken on half a dozen different grounds any one of which will reverse the decision of this court especially the one failing to ebar charge e the commission of any odense public offense martineau of cassia county was run in today with two indictments to meet him and on which he was arraigned today hart wright hogansen and austin from bear lake are waiting their turn to be judicially murdered there is no evidence against thern them but that a necessary ingredient in those kind of cases lia in idaho SMART ALi feCK idaho oct 26 25 1889 |