Show HABEAS CORPUS an effort made nade to test the legality of Secre segregation gation yesterday inthe in the third district court F S richard esq filed a petit petition ion in habeas corpus in behalf of apostle lorenzo snow wh who 0 is is i undergoing a term ot imprisonment in in the penitentiary imposed on colv conviction action in the first dietr district act court of unlawful cohabitation the indictment contained three C counts and in answer to a question of the court yesterday as to the ob eject of the petition mr snowe snows nt attorney said the to test the legality of the segregation process in inthe the absence of the prosecuting attorney argument on the question was deferred till this M morning orning fo following lowing is the petition in rn the district cowl court of the third judicial district territory of utah sail sall lake county in the matter of the application of lorenzo snow for a writ of habeas corpus the petition of lorenzo snow respectfully fully shows that be he Is now a prisoner confined in custody of frank H dyer united states bl marshal arshat in and for the territory of utah at the county of salt lake in said territory for a supposed eup posed criminal offence agal against list the united states to wit unlawful cohabitation your petitioner also shows that such conrin confinement ement is by virtue of the judgement jud gement Nv warrant arrant and proceedings of ie record cord including three indictments against your petitioner his arraigns 4 mente ments thereon and pleas thereto re ively as well as demurrers to ucb such pleas decisions thereof and verdicts of the jury being the record lof of said matters in the district court of the first judicial district of the territory of utah copies of all of which are hereto annexed and marked respectively a act vely ively ex exhibits 1 A 1 B C D E F G it I 1 J L M N I 1 band I 1 d P and your petitioner detitto e r further ur t er s shows owe that under a said judgement jud u gement e ent a copy of which is marked ar e ex exhibit abit and I 1 in execution thereof he has been imprisoned in the penitentiary bormore for more than six months to wit continuously since the day of march A D 1886 and has paid in satisfaction of the tine fine adjudged against him and all the costs awarded and assessed against him on said prosecution and your petitioner further states that he b Is advised and verily believes that hie his imprisonment Is illegal and that such illegality consists in this the court had no jurisdiction to pass judgment against your petition more than one of the indictments or records referred to in its eaid said judgment for the reason that the luense therein set out is the same aa as that contained and set out in each of the other eaid said indictments and records and the maximum the court has bas authority to impose was eix six months imprisonment and a fine of that by his bis said imprisonment your petitioner la Is being pun punished lebed twice for one and the same offense lense of wherefore your petitioner prays a writ of habeas corpus to the end that be he may be discharged from custody lomenzo LoEE SNOW or UTAH 1 salt lake county I 1 f ss lorenzo the petitioner above named being duly worn sworn cays that be has heard beard read the foregoing petition I 1 and knows the contents thereof th atthe same is true of his own knowledge except aa its to matters therein stated st at ed on information and i belief and as to those matters he be liever lieve aitto it to he true LORENZO show SNOW subscribed and sworn to before we this 21 et day of october AD 1886 JAMES JACK notary public |