Show JUDGE ZANE charges Ni arges the jury july jul y of 1 I third U S district them to act without malice 31 alice hatred or III willa nr to bo be swayed by fear favor r avor or oi affection gentlemen of the grand jury it is the duty of the court to RIVO give you a charge respecting your duties when I 1 you retire to your room it will be proper for you to elect some one of your number who ia is a legible writer to take down the testimony of each witness if not literally you should take the substance correctly bes be cause it may be of importance afterwards tho the foreman will swear all of the na witnesses it nesses that may be brought before you and you should hear only legal testimony and hiir hit r testimony the Jes of witnesses under oath except BO so far as it consists of documentary evi dence and except in the case where there has has been an examination before or commissioner and the defendant has las had an opportunity of cross examining ft a witness or the witness has since died and cannot be produced before you you are not required to bear the evidence of witnesses for the defendant but if there ia is any evidence within reach within your knowledge that would explain the matter in testimony before you it would be proper pro per for you to bring such witness in in or to produce such evidence to hear it you ought to find an indictment gentlemen in any case when all the evidence before you taken together if unexplained or would in your judgment warrant a conviction by trial jury you should carefully inquire into in to cases where persons aro arc imons im r or in jail awaiting an indict in 1 i c t or where the party lias has been to appear to answer an who is out on bail it is atso also your duty m wherever he rever you you or have reasonable ground to that an offense has been inthe in the district to investigate offense and if any member of the jury knows or has reason to that a public offense triable within this district has been corn com you ou should declare it to the jury lury and the grand jury investigate it thoroughly it is your duty to investigate and io to inquire into the condition of all PUBLIC prisons ONS and any public places where any per pers are confined or held and ting this should do thoroughly each grand juror should keep be se whatever lie himsel for or any other amber of the grand jury may have or as to how any member of the grand jury has voted keep everything secret that occurs in the grand jury room unless you may be called called as a witness afterwards in m court in pursuance of lay law you ou should not disclose anything that oc curs in the grand jury room to any ason person outside if you should do so you subject yourself yours elf to severe S ment in case of treason it is aces sary that it should be proved by two witnesses esses and in case of perjury perl ury one W witness nes and corroborative evidence evidence your duty in a general way is stated in the oaths which you have taken yon you should indict no one through malice hatred or ill will nor should you leave any case spirited through fear favor favor or attea tion you should be impartial in all your investigations 0 your Youri only ySo motive can be the truth nothing else and if any man should be e brought broat b elore before you against whom you vou have a prejudice you must lay your yo prejudice aside and investigate nia his case fairly and impartially and afis if any man is brought before you in whose favor you may be prejudiced or to whom you may be under under dobli ib lations gat ions you cannot take this matter into consideration and whenever the brusyo bU evidence warrants 8 no matter who it is whether it is syo your best friend orthe highest acm man in society it that he may have a fair abid impartial trial before abury of his country u I 1 hios prosecution e con of offen offenses in practice hero bet c can only bo be commenced by an indictment andic 0 ament hence you see gentle men amsi kyou occupy ayery important an position a very responsible e po the various crimes and of aises benses have been described by the territorial territorial legislature and in codes of congress you will SA find in the acts of I 1 le Territorial code mur deran d mant slaughter SASS robbery and glary and various other offense that I 1 will mention ya you will find them described in the code in the act of will find polygamy 7 and unlawful colial citation and other c offenses no matter how common an offense ly may be in tile community it requires you to investigate 1 cias it so much the more thoroughly and if ifancy any man is guilty whoever it sayo may be it is your duty as grand jurors and under your oath to indict him and on hearing the testimony of witnesses you should be careful not to be imposed upon if witnesses felt the truth it is generally not much trouble to lyme to conclusion but li if they tell things that they do not know it is sometimes difficult to tell where the truth enda and falsehood begins and if they wont tell what the Y know it is still A brict ct ti latter to reach a satisfactory it is a duty that you owe to the party whose is beina in vesti gated to aeo oeo that you are not im ased upon by any person that i 1 az a ce prejudiced against him or gui d gome motivo because it is a great hardship a wrong any man mali to be charged with a 4 crime of which bo he is innocent it is a wrong for which n adequate corns com sensation pensa tion can bo be made it seems and it ia is a great wrong for a man who lias bas committed acri roo to RO go unpunished life liberty and the rights of pro prod perty erty and society ty are protected by tho the enforcement In of the c criminal code to a large extent and the p public bublic has an interest in having all criminals convicted that thereby other persons who may be disposed to commit like be deterred from committing offenses Tenses of may them tho the object of nil all punishment la is to tb protect society not by the innocent but the p punishing g guilty so gentlemen of tho the grand J jury uly y you 0 I 1 see e that y you ou have a very important the tile t n d duty ty to ti perform rford you nave have conduct i interest e e t of alie pers person on whose bo be investigating g in your ou may blands you extent and you have hands to a large the interest of society in your hands you must go forward bon honestly estly and fearlessly fearless altu and do your whole duty A man that does his duty in any department part ment of life anywhere need not bo be afraid of anything neither in this world 1 nor as wo believe in the world to con come ie A consciousness of a faithful and disc haigo of duty will bo b 0 a passport amid every difficulty and every danger and no man hs as a grand juror or otherwise hr a right aright to take into consideration consequences to himself ho ile must do his duty I 1 will state to the grand jury if you require any further ansti notions you can receive it from the court oi or the prosecuting attorney who will be with you from time to time and who will give you any information as to t 0 your duty under the law that may bo be proper and right |