| Show Speedy Justice Favorable It is encouraging to law abiding citizens to note the dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis t to swift and effective punishment patch h being used to bring law violators Within a few days Hotelling a man with a wife and five live children who confessed to the murder and dissection of oi oia ofa a s little girl had his hearing and was sentenced to life imprison- imprison men at hard labor The sentencing judge tersely remarked that the question of sanity might be considered at leasure the vital with now a sentence commensurate 1 point at issue was to provide the crime Two Tv o card sharks who were convicted of cheating at cards while g gambling ambling were sentenced to three years in prison Walsh attorney for young oung young Hickman asked for the full length i of time allowed by the California courts to prepare to prove young Hickman insane The judge remarked that twenty five gays days was enough II Much luch criticism has been heal heard d during b recent lecent years of the success of defending attorneys to have the cases of their clients another until public sentiment has on one pretext or become absorbed with something else other than the crime and the way thus made easier for an or lesser punishment i While the courts and prosecution of crime is in the hands of t men of the highest type who have only one desire and that is to toto administer justice not only to the defendant at bar but to the and it is human to be public they are after all human beings sentiment It affected consciously or of unconsciously by public I law cannot be en en- i has come to be a that an unpopular forced It is also true that time heals many wounds No harm can be done to try the case while the facts are in vivid and to administer speedy justice If justice is administered while the crime is vividly in the minds of the public it has a stimulating moral effect |
