Show IT THEIR SIGHTS 1 I 1 jh i H which i pertin cin to the all absorbing bocar topic is taken from a recent issue of the in these times of usurpation and excess of authority it is proper that the people should clearly under their rights that they might know what course to pursue when those rights are assailed lawful should ho upheld aud choso who lawfully represent it should be represented but the people have rights also and the law und its officers tre supposed to be for the purpose of protecting them when the power individuals to preserve the peace and guard the public interest is faed to oppress and annoy it is necessary that it should or resisted but all resistance should be within the limits of thu law and that it may be citizens learn their own prerogatives and the limits of authority of officials fici als A great many persona are want ed to appear before the courts as witnesses it is necessary toi jhc thc ends of justice that elioso who are required to give evidence should attend when properly summoned atit there is a method provided by law for the summoning of bitnes e and unless that is followed citizens are not bound to respond any impostor might eo about notifying people to leave their homes to appear at court at a given time but nobody would be under obligations to pay any attention to hi demands s i the process in jaw by which the attendance of a witness is required is called n subpoena it is written document ejot a verbal order it must be signed and by a magistrate prosecuting attorney or clerk of a court it is di reeled to a given person and specifics where and when he is required to attend as a witness jl may also direct him to bring with him books or papers or other such things in his control as he is bound by law to produce when required but this does not apply to private books papers or other documents in which the public have no concern A subpoena is served by showing the original and delivering or a ticket containing its substance to the witness personally or by leaving a copy wih some suitable person at the place of hid abode giving or offering to him at the earic time if demanded by him ahe fees to which he is entitled for travel to and from the place designated and one daya there the witness must be allow i f i t t S I 1 cd a reasonable time for pre para tion and travel to the of at this is the provision oi the law in civil cases the calmi nal law provides th atthe vice nl a is made by chowing tin original to the personally and informing c hilli of its contents except ho is present in court or before a judicial officer anany case a witness ia hot sub or ord ermade out in dm form as we haap described when a rude person obtrudes himself inu a house or presence and exclaim f tt you arc subpoenaed 1 or 1 I sub ayou any duly issued by competent no taken ochia blue ter even if he hs known or sup posed to ba boned those inflated masses 0 gigantic called deputy marshals it no difference ho liaa no n OK to order a witness to appeal by word af mouth alian he has an accused or break into a building without a jea cannot be taken int custody on a subpoena aheu a witness 1 having b ei properly summons the court ma lascu an attachment or warrant ol 01 arrest and the may be punched hv the court fi contempt bul cannot c im pel one to go with them by virtue of a except duft civil one against tw other or an cs eding for n b one against alio other a husband cannot be tu act aa a wit dac 63 against the ditc niu tal consent when legal bivs are befurt grand ju ria iu cases against ihma they can act bac to no nifty ter attorney 01 may try to extort in the attempt to indue legal wives tu testify alie lua bands iia itself an infraction 0 the law and to be despised aili posed when apfl ara a grau djury aud requited hw nr that they will not reveal the or their answerer refuse to tako buch u oath law that re it it is an imposition that is continually practiced practised upon 1111 informed persons such an oath almany have been required to bakeis ta keis not witnesses may be sworn to tell the truth but nut to preserve that h one of the instances of excess of authority toi which the peo pie of utah are becom njg accia toiled witnesses arc often asked in upon court as to testimony be burc the grand jury and attempts are made to bewilder and confute them by statements that they gave different evidence before the grand jury to that in apen upen court ia all wrong and for their own protection witnesses before a grand jury have just as much right to taftt notes fi the questions propounded and their own answers as tho prosecuting attorney had in a recent case to produce a memorandum of questions and answers to aid him in cramin ing witnesses in court witnesses havo as much right to a memorandum to refresh their memory as a prosecuting officer has fora for a similar purpose self protection besides being a law of nature becomes a rule of necessity in such peculiar times aa these A clergyman or priest banot canot be required to testify as to any confession made to him in his dional character without the consent of the person making alie con fes aion neither can a physician or I 1 burgeon be compelled to disclose any information acquired in attending a patient which was necessary to enable him to act for the patient without the s consent witnesses are not required by law to testify as to what they think or imagine or believe but as to what they know of their own know ledge if they do not really inov of a fact or occurrence on which they are questioned they need not I 1 testify 0 o it or try to magnify their belief in knowledge repute rumor common talk conjecture are not knowledge and I 1 do not know is a proper answer in the absence of actual knowledge A witness is not perjured who hakea such answer ali en he does not know but he is perjured when he baya he knows of a thing and he does not we have no disposition to eay 1 or do anything obstruct to the ad ministration of justice boutwe have a desire to see the public protected in their rights we make these r marks fur the benefit of people liable to be imposed upon by unwarranted and because we know that in many instances not only has the law been stretched boits utmost limits and construed beyond loi indi but the unsophisticated have been brow and terrorized and the law has been overstepped over stepped and violated in the reckless crusade a people singled out for destruction because of their attachment to religious principles that arc dearer to them than life |