Show THE NEW ICi y C 1 our salt lake correspondent dilate on zanea 1 caw aniton HERALD the new specific tor cohabitation cases just promulgated by mr dickson nud of course sustained by his honor judge zane is to prosecute a defendant who may have been living tarco years with two whether married ten years ago or twenty for every moiety of time which has elapsed sinco the beginning of the period within the law of limitation the officer has however in that merciful goodness for which he is noted commenced by mildly divid ly the period into year s but has obtained a ruling that it may be segregated into weeks following this ruling to its logical conclusion it may be divided into days and then into hours and if a relic of the victims property remain and his vitality bold out it may even be minced up into minutes this it must bo remembered is not because of a largo number of of course if a roan had lived simultaneously with five wives he could be punished on five indictment or counts in an indictment but this ruling touches that class who have but two wives and makes the of fence into a separate violation of the edmunds blaw for every week month year or minute ac cordin g to the temper of the prosecutor which has elapsed since the commencement men cement of the cohabitation at least for three years last past then it must also be remembered that this same court has ruled out the sexual act hence it is not based upon a number of times that may baye been committed so we are forced by logical deductions to the conclusion that such a practice in the courts is equivalent to one of the following kind suppose a beef bief should steal calf which under outlaw would be grand larceny and that he should keep that calf a month before the theft was known or the thief discovered it would y virtue of a parallel construction 0 proper to indict that man for every day week hour or minute ie had kept that stolen sot one indictment and punishment would suffice but an indictment with separate punishment for every single day if that were the degree of segregation which the prosecuting officer decided upon so that when the national legislation fixed the penalty for unlawful cohabitation at six months they intended according to this ruling to give the defendant a life term in the penitentiary and whon the territorial fixed the utmost limit of imprisonment for grandl larceny at ten years they meant ten years lor each day till the thief was discovered hence thirty days at ten years to a day would be only ars imprisonment for stealing the calf congress should at once bo ini armed of the marvelous powers and workings of their act of 82 and solicited to fix the penalty so that a defendant might at least have ime to show that he had re ormed leave him say half a life ime or at leasta year or wo to repent in before death and our legislature egi slature must fix the thieves too eo that they can suffer the penalty at least by the end of their career it looks bad to have a penalty so heavy that a roan dies years before he has his term the edmunds law haying been made to meet patriarchal times its i authors roust have had an idea that the the present enjoy patriarchal longevity and of course with that view a hundred years or eo make much difference GALLIC |