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Show DISTRICT COURT. Captain Dayis Denied Writ Of Habeas Corpus. DON. C SNOW'S U. S. CASE. It Piaces JudgeKine in an Embarrassing Position Lizzie Lester of Moab Her Parents Hast Appear in Court-Other Matters in Court. Considerable interest was manifested in the proceedings before Judge King this forenoon.The First District court room was thronged with spectators. Undoubtedly the hearing of the Captain Cap-tain Davis habeas corpus proceedings was the main drawing card. The proceedings pro-ceedings were heated. Prosecutor Judd charging surreptitious- work and Attorney At-torney Houtz Qghting bard for the privilege pri-vilege of making his case before the court, saving that the prosecutor was denying him this right by stopping the proceedings and injecting into the case his evidence at the wrong time, and Mr. Juda getting his "whack" by demanding demand-ing that Mr. Houtz refrain from argu-iDghie argu-iDghie case before the case for the people peo-ple had been presented which Dan was proceeding to do before evidence to contradict his position had been of-lered. of-lered. The application for this writ was based upon the fact that the paper or copy of the commitment on which Sheriff Somerville is holding Captain Davis is defective in that an old penitentiary peni-tentiary commitment blank was used and the word "pen tentiaiy" stricken out and nothing inserted in its stead so tha1; Mr. D.tvis was committed "to the of Grand county," and further down is commanded to be turned over to the warden of the pen'tentiary. The original cummitment with the words "county jail" inserted instead of penitentiary peni-tentiary was produced. This also commands com-mands the prisoner to be turned over to . the warden of the penitentiary, which i3 clearly a clerical error, the clerk having failed to erase the printed line. The judge held that the fact that the officer held a defective copy got not in the regular way (it, however, has the seal of the court upon it,) did not make the commitment invalid and the writ of habeas corpus was therefore denied. Don Carlos Snow, of Provo, came before be-fore his honor and changed his plea to that of auilty. Judge Dusenberry the defendant's attorney, stated that Mr. Snow had removed hie plural - wife from the city and made arrangements for her support, and that it wps Mr. Snow's earnest and honest desire to obev thiB law and all other laws strictly in the future. Judge Dusenberry made a strong plea for leniency.asking in fact, that sentence be suspended during good behavior. U. S. Attorney Judd stated that it is not the policy of the government to be unnecessarily harsh in such cases as this, and iD view of the statement state-ment made which be believes be-lieves is true and sincere a light sentence would satisfy all demands. de-mands. Social customs are not built j nor torn down in a day, but Mr. Snow j has only himself to blame for being in his present condition. Since the Mormon Mor-mon people have as a body abandoned polygamy the cases that now arise might with consistency all be viewed a aggravated cases. Mr. Snow had no excuse for not aoiding by the con tra'jt. The fact that he has a sick wife or that others will suffer with him, which Judtre Dusenberry pleads, might be pleaded tor any criminal, However, How-ever, he would not insist for a heavy sentence, but he did feel thtitis the duty of the court to say to these people emphatically that these offenses mu3t cease and that a light sentence does not mean that the offense is condoned. Judge King felt himself placed in an embarrassing position, in that he bad known the defendant personally for many years and had never known anything any-thing bad of him except thia offeaS9 of unlawful cohabitation. He is in a Dosi tion to know that all that the defendant's defend-ant's attorney had said was true, sincere sin-cere and be believed the law would not be broten by Mr. Snow in the future. However, with the prosecuting attorney attor-ney he felt that all laws in force must be obeved, that violators of law must be treated all alike, therefore he could not suspend sentence but would impose a light fine. The amount will be stated on Monday morning next. Ifitcan'i be ruW.OtOM3CSfliUryf n ,,w"ve to The parents of Lizzie LeEter of Moab were ordered to appear in court and show cause W05 she should not be sent to the reform school. U, S, vs. Lorenzo Huish. Adultery. L lea of guilty. Time of passing sentence sen-tence set for Monday, February 25th People vs. Chas. Dorsey. Grand larseny. Bonds forfeited. The peoDle vs. Jacob Nielsen of Kanosh. Dismissed and forfeiture of bonds set aside. jade rendered a partial decision " tnf blS Unitah county water suit. I he decree when drawn up will scale down the amount of water used by all the defendants Blightly, and add to the amount which the plaintiffs of late years haye been allowed |