Show ARNOLDS SENTENCE before the third Thira district court in salt lake city yesterday oreon orson arno arnold appeared and nd received sentence after bis his attorney bad unsuccessfully i cese cess fully argued a motion for a new trial the circumstances connected with mr arnolds case have become somewhat tome what celebrated it will bo be remembered that more than a year year ago he was acau accrued jedof of unlawful cohabitation and that the court permitted him to escape without imprisonment because on that occasion he be promised to obey the law in the future six months or less ago he be was arrested rearrested re and soon after i indicted f and eventually tried and convicted upon three charge charges of unlawful cohabitation with the same wives with whom he had pr promised not to live the evidence upon which he was convicted was extremely meagre and there is no allima ibio oia intended to keep hie his promise and acted in perfect good faith according to the best ofris knowledge to many bia his conviction upon the last charges was a total surprise notwithstanding I 1 the fact that the public have long ago lost faith in the impartiality of the courts A few daye days since J L rawlins as mr arnolds attorney moved for a new I 1 trial trini upon the ground first that the verdict wae was contrary dry to the law and second the evidence and third that the court bad misdirected the jury in matters of law and erred in the decision of matters of law arising during the course ef of the trial in the course of his argument in support of this nio motion tion mr kawlins rawlins pointed out the several efforts of his client to obey the law mr arnold had according to the testimony at a time prior to the ending anding of tho the indictment made an agreement with hia his second wife wifel to abandon his plural relationship with her this was wa all he could do towards annulling ann their plural mar ariage but afterwards in court he had bad promised to obey the law against cohabitation and still later he was accused because he abed with hi hie s former plural wife as he might properly associate with any female acquaintance and supa ported and cared for her children who were by act of congress al also ISO hia his legitimate children in reply to the argument of mr raulino Raw lina lino the assistant prosecuting attorney remarked that there had been 20 much said in regard to the relation of person persons in the position of the defendant fen dant that it seemed like idle I 1 ceremony to say anything more about it when the assistant prosecutor waa was through mr rawlins replied briefly and the court promptly overruled the motion for a new trial the defendant arnold was promptly called forward for sentence the judge asked him if he proposed to obey the law in tho the future mr arnold replied that be he had tried to obey the law but that he had no further promises to make he evidently felt convinced that nothing that he could do in keeping any promise exacted from him by the court would avail to say save him from prosecution whenever the crusaders de sired on the three charges the I 1 court then sentenced the defendant to a total fino fine of and a total of afim months and mr arnold ainold is now in the penitentiary hia his attorney asked to be permitted to appeal to the U S supreme dourt autri but such an appeal was promptly denied by judge judg e zane the facia facts in the case hardly bar dl y require any argument they point poi nt their own moral and form an additional decoration to the collection col lection of monstrosities created by the crusade under the edmunds law |