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Show CMiT GET Hi IN i HIS 01 III, IS COURT DECISIOi When Henry Korb was denied a writ of habeas corpus by the supreme court after he had pleaded guilty to being intoxicated, it established beyond be-yond a doubt the jurisdiction of the local courts in all cases of drunkenness, drunken-ness, according to Judge George S. Barker. Korb was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or spend fifty days in jai. His attorney, A. G. Horn, applied for the writ, contending that under the law the conviction would not stand. "This is the first case under the new law that has gone to the supreme court," Judge Barker stated, "and it certainly puts an end to tho contentions conten-tions of several lawyers or the city as to the meaning of the prohibition law. The supreme court even went so far as to rule that an individual drunk in his own home, violates the law. It leaves the officers frc- to go ahead with arrests, while heretofore they were not quite clear as to what lengths they might go. Furthermore, it is made evident that when the legislature legis-lature framed the liquor law placed on the statutes at the last session, it intended to make the state of Utah absolutely dry. There is no more doubt in my mind as to the intention of the lawmakers and in subsequent decisions I will act according. "In fact, there has been but little doubt in my mind from the beginning that it was the "intention of the legislators legis-lators to leave no loopholes whereby a person could have a drink, if he so desired. I felt that the sentiment of the entire state demanded absoluto prohibition and tnat the law was framed with that pnd in view." nn |