Show AS the conviction of jones and in the third district court on the charged of bribery was we believe received by the public as a matter of course notwithstanding the slender testimony in ony and the tricky manner in which the case was worked up with an anti mormon jury and un an a anti ti mormon courts court the prosecuting attorney only wastes bis his strength by endeavoring to secure convictions in cases which involve par bizan feelings and prejudices because in such cases if the accused accused I 1 arc are mormons Alor or are supposed to have any connection with the mor bolij mons conviction is almost certain andia and if the accused ar are e not mor mono and the offe offence nee partakes of any par lizan nature a conviction can call scarcely a be had thus is the pernicious working of the utah jury system which lias has no parallel in the whole world practically illustrated the law pru providing riding for the drawing of jury panels in utah carefully guarded against again st tile very thill thing g which it has not only rendered pos tible sible but actually made almoite necessary under the rulings ruling and manipulations of the courts and the open venire eidem baskin when he was united states prosecuting attorney At lorney testified to the general fairness of if the jurors drawn under the poland law in euch such a manner that half of each each panel was mormon and half gentile even thia system gave the small non moamoa elen clement tent a great advantage because it gayo gave them half halt of tho representation on every jury pannel notwithstanding their being drawn from a paltry minority of the citizens of the territory ory who are and were qualified for jury service gery ice if as the court courts have ruled it is i legal to virtually cast aside the le legislative a provisions provit proTis ions for w w electing r ju judora F is and leave the deputies to td pack with parti ians 3 of chef rown stripe excl exclusively ivean then ought to be changed speedily before the administration of justice in itt this territory becomes nothing but a pap par i lizan travesty tra if the conduct of jones and ie is reprehensible what can be said of the operative cooperative co acts of ireland franks and dickson yet the former are colv convicted isted of crime and the latter in all probability will escape without LL trial and these inequalities of justice ore re all due to a perverted unfair grand and petit jury system in utah |