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Show EUGENE SCHMITZ OF FRISCO MM NOT BE TRIED AGAIN Prosjcutlon's Petition for a Rehear-Ing Rehear-Ing of the Bribery and Graft Cases Denied by the Supreme Court. San Francisco The Biiprcmo court, by unanimous vote, tins handed down-n down-n decision denying tho application of the prosecution In the San Francisco brlhory-grnft cases for a rehearing, after a decision by tho district court or nppu.als In tho case of former Mayor Eugcno K. Schmltz, convicted of extortion ex-tortion In thet French rcsnurant cases. Without a dissenting voto among tho seven Justices, (he court sustained tho nppcllato court In Its decision that the Inc. .tment upon which Schmltz was convicted was defective, In that It 'did not aver that Schmltz was mayor, that Ruef, his cc-defendnnt, was a political po-litical lias's, practically In control or the city, tjnt as such they wcro In a position to cxcrclso power nnd undue influence over tho pollco commissioners, commission-ers, nnd that It . did not show that Schmltz resorted to' unlawful means in threatening to hnvo liquor licenses withheld. |