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Show BELLE LONDON CASE ' IN SUPREME COURT SALT LAKE, Fob. 15. Arguments I on nppeal In the case of tho Btato against -Mxa. Dora B. Topham, bettor known as Belle London, convicted ofT pandering' and sentenced to IS years in the stato penitentiary, were made before the supremo court this morning. morn-ing. The case was taken under advisement. ad-visement. . -i -i found guilty by a jury in Judge F. C. Loofbourow's . or uv..icinK Dogney Grey, 16 ears of ago, 10 enter the "stockade" for immoral purpose's. ' .Tho state was roprosentcd beforo the supremo court by Attorney Gen eTal A. R. Barnes, Judge Thomas Marioneaux of tho firm of Powers & Marloneaux appeared for the defendant. defend-ant. Judge Marioneaux argued that under un-der tho -Information, Mrs. Topham could not 'know tho specific charges against her and was thereforo unprepared unpre-pared to meet evidence. The pandering pander-ing statute, he argued, covers bo large a field that a defendant cannot possibly know the exact nature of tho charges, In the appellant's abstract, 17 errors er-rors and two suplomental errors are assigned. |