Show UNUSUAL LEGAL DECISION DECISION Eat Dot It Was Vas Emphatically l Indorsed by the Spectators e. e I J beard the late lat Judge John R R. Grace of tho court of appeals of Kentucky Ken Ken- lien tacky tucky set aside the tho verdict of a n jury jury once under circumstances that to my mind did dill him infinite infinite credit credit said Rep Rep- Representative ve John Joh S S. S Rhea of that state to a Washington Post representative It seems that a poor poor woman who was cu en tho the verge of I starvation and who was as tho the solo support of of four little children children children chil chil- dren went into a neighbors neighbor's smokehouse smoke smoke- house borse and purloined a piece of cf bacon The proof was was positive and the tho jury j jury reluctantly r returned returned-a a verdict of guilty guilt i When tho the finding of the jury was read Judge Grace Gr ce that hat time timo presided over the Fourteenth Fourteenth nth judicial district i rising to his hi feet s' s said id in hi tho the most CJ era cm phatie tones The fhe court orders that the verdict in this case easo be set aside and I want ant to declare hero here that thit iu in in all cases where an unfortunate woman is on trial for stealing steal steal- fag ing food t to lo keep her offspring from starving it will shill require 13 men mento mento mento to convict her of the crime rimo in this court The Tho defendant is discharged from custody cus cus- tody The anno announcement was was greeted with applause Uie from tho spectators and the tho general sentiment w was s that Judge Grace Graco had bad alt acted riot not only as as' befitted a chivalrous maD man but but that bis his ruling was right Theft to to keep inn innocent babes from pc perishing of hunger can scarcely bo lio called a a crime |