| Show 11 IS IT in the minutes of alie district court proceeding in another column there appears a decision of the court sentencing mrs herC penitentiary for tempt in declining to answer a question propounded by tha grand jury Tej ln previous evidence of the witness thia ruling a singular mrs bon states ander oath her husband no and wife when he married her abbe aa his legal wife As such bhe stands upon her privilege of refusing to answer further questions a course which has been sustained times without number n unlawful cohabitation and polygamy cases in the utah courts the practice and the precedents prece denta were set forelli by air klan ball in hia argument and liia in cuiry why should abo Bit noss give testimony before the grand ary which she would be excused from riving beare the trial jury was well and pertinently put the court that witness only concluded she wa the legal wife that abo biad no means of knowing it hence the question waa proper and should bo answered aa a legal deduction this view of the controversy may be hereafter sustained the remote connection between the premises however scarcely seems to bear it out as a logical deduction the supreme court will doubtless b called upon to giro its view |
