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Show AN IGNORANT JURY. A lew days ago a coroner's jury in s.iit Lake uity were called on a c to where dead infants were found under very suspicious cer-cumstiuces. cer-cumstiuces. After hearing the evidence they concluded lhat it was a case of tvilfull murder, and added Lhat as there was nothing in the Statuses of our territory in the vvaj of authority in such cases some action should be taken in the legislature." If lhat jury had been iu Sanpet9 the salt Lake papers would have been , lull of glee, and held the ma,;trr up as a proof ef the ignorance ignoran-ce of people iu the country, but coming co-ming as it does from the heaJqu-ariers heaJqu-ariers of civilization and intelligence intellige-nce in this territory, is one of the mysteries said to be common to ab juries. When men are tried every .ercn of the district courts, and men are sentenced to imprisonment, and tv.u to capital punishment, and the sentences are carried into effect it is scarcly credible that men can make such a blunder, and it is stiil harder to believe that they rendered their verdict purposely to screen ttie guilty parties. Juried are sometime lesponsihle for g-re.it wiongs. Wheu tney are investigating a case end find that a crime has been committed, it ib .not for them to screen the perpetra lor. If the law under which they are. convicted is a bad one, putting it in force will often cause repeal. But when a jury either through ignorance, or pity refuse to do thei,-swoni thei,-swoni duty they are putting apre-iniunion apre-iniunion crime and givinr the rain ;o law breakers. |