Show I QUESTION FOR FOl TRIAL I 1 JUDGES There Is growing growIng- danger that the accused ms anti and grafters o of San Francisco an and the convicted cOIl mayor may escape the punishment they so richly deserve through some sonic technical c irregularities in the tho drawing of or iu indict indict- indictments let let- ments a against them Time The ju judge Jc is said al to have indicated that thai he lie would hol hold that lint the time technical 11 objection is s good and amid that tho the prosecution will wll have to begin all over ovet again It brings up UI to the trIal ju judge e this question Which is 0 of more moie importance t to society or Justice S I S j i it It f 1 V hi J j t U-ial U J. J g c everywhere Anti And where the they haVe Im been big enough h. the they have held that the substantial su rights of the accused arc are not rot to be taken ay a awaY but but that the substantial rights of or th tho people are arc not to be taken awa away either cither There are arc few tew technical flaws in papers which can cami not be cure cured by an order of the time court COUlt And where this can be lie done one without depriving depriving- the prisoner at the thc bar of or any right to which the lie laws of or civilization entitle hun him him such an order of court should always be entered Nothing can be more harmful to a community than timan the tho knowledge that a guilty Euill man can not b bo punished that the lie trial jud judge e will give him time the benefit o of every doubtful decision that his Interests are arc always considered and time the Interests ts of the community never That sort tort of or thing thinE Is la wl what it makes males anarchists That sort of or thing brings the lie law an and the the courts COUlts into Inte a deserved disrepute I Upon e every cly citizen rests the thc o obligation to give I ac ac- used men Inca a fair trial Society docs not want any moreman moro more Li Limn man that and equity demands no less than th that t. t But nut L the hie biggest judges have been those who drove straight a cross across objection and through technicalities to time the truth h Having HavIng- arr arrived cd there having havIn- found tho the facts acts the law Jow was permitted permitted and and compelled compelled to to take tae Its cour course e. e The rhe facts establish this case Ruef huer took tool bribe mono money from rein the restaurant keepers keepers- amid divided It with t the ile mayor maor He HO took money from promoters o of big hig enterprises enterprises enter enter- and amid divided It with the lie mayor maor These things ate aie ateno no lon longer er in dou doubt t. t Not oven even the firm firmest cst defender of will deny them lh Then n both deserve punishment The fact that hint there I Is 15 an nn Immaterial flaw in his Indictment or 01 In tho the form followed In the tIme drawing of or the tho grand jury Is 15 not going to change the ra fact t that the time mayor committed a II crime And that Is the time one question Courts that permit technicalities to defeat UHf Iho iii cn ends s of oC justice do not honor the bench nor reflect nn any credit on the time profession of or the thc law Jaw 1 |