Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-31 | Page 7 | Chas. E.Layne is Exonerated

cms. E. ME IS EXONERATED In Municipal court today the concluding con-cluding testimony in the case of the City vs. Charles E. Layne was presented pre-sented by Patrolman Walter Moore, for the defendant. The patrolman stated that Layne, preceding the altercation alter-cation in which the latter was alleged to have committee a battery upon tho person of Adrian Baker, had merely suggestod that ho walk tho young men ho had arrested to jail, instead of waiting for tho auto patrol. He did not witness the trouble between Layne and Buker, but upon Investigating it afterward, found that tho general opinion of persons at the scene was that tho former police Hergeaut had struck Baker in Bolf-defonsc and "should have hit him harder." Judge Barker rendered a decision lo not guilty in the case,. and stated that the complaining witness, Baker, had acted in an unduly officious manner. man-ner. The nature of Baker's actions, ac-tions, he said further, was virtually that of an interference with an officer, of-ficer, as Mr. Layne had assumed that duty under his rights as a citizen in starting to assist Patrolman Moore to quell the disturbance that was go-j lng on at the time. on