Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT larard ato 1 31 this tills morning at ten the first firt dietrict court was opened mr barnard white te was in attendance and the familiar features of P J barratt faa were noticed among other attorn tor corniea nies iea the gentlemark gent lemaa lemarL haa has bea been la 1 hlepos for som time dij h iii ito for recovered as to be aveto be to attendance oa on the court 6 the journal was readdy read by clerk perkins la in tb the e case of lb abe e U S va vs barnard white the court overruled the motion for anew a new trial madrion ni arieon the ground that ithe po court ur t erred effe 4 in n admitting the testimony tee of or the fitness vit ness jane fife white the legal wife of defendant the court stated that it had carefully examined authorities and hadgett had great hesitancy in overruling th 0 mot motion 0 and was inclined to doubt the correctness of its former ruling but in order that an appeal may be taken and tho the matter decided satisfactorily and definitely by the supreme court of the territory the court sustained ned its former ruling the court indr indi bated its IN willingness lo 10 admit the defendant di to bail ball pending appeal hie his honor referred to the great necessity for this question ozi to be settled this court now inclines to the ion that a legal wife cannot be compelled ril ed to testify in this class of cases against g 1 ast her husband without wit bout the consent of both parties in the third district the court baa has ruled to admit the testimony of the first wife in order then to avoid confusion and atil that the question tion may be settled by the supreme court this court takes the above asuree the court held that the verdict was made in accordance with the evidence in the ase case mr white was asked to stand up and on being asked if he had an anything Y to pa pay why the sentence of the court should not bo be passed upon him he be replied 1 I haye have nothing whatever to eay say the court then sentenced sentenced mr white to imprisonment in the rent 1 tertiary tent iary lary for a period of six months and to pay a finoff and the cost of prosecution mr kimball aked for a stay of judgment and that the defendant be admitted to bail ball pending appeal the stay of proceedings was granted and the defendant was admitted to ball in the sum of Wm Stimpson in peon was arraigned on two indictments charging unlawful cohabitation with edna stimpson and mary stimpson as wives during the year years 1884 and 1885 the defendant took the statutory time in which to plead and alie court set saturday morning as the time for accepting the plea mr nir stimpson peon furnished all the tests mony required in hll hl l case me before the grand jury the case of lashus vs chamberlin was then proceeded with at two lion P 11 II 1 emerson mer made tho the closing argument to the jury in tha the case of george IV wr lashua va vs thomas C chamberlin which had bad occupied the time of the court since yester yesterday ay morning the court charged the jury and they retired draw a jury in the case of steva slovene va the rocky mountain bell telephone company Compau said bis his honor and the jury was drawn those gentleman gent le who are subscribers for the bell telephone were excused from ise on an th ejury this Thia suit sult ia is brought by the plaintiff against the defendant company to recover damages in ili the eum sum of alleged to have been sustained through injury to a horse from balb aa struck by a telephone wire which was cut loose loose by one of defend defendants ints employees while the horse was passing beneath the accident occurred on fifth street in front of mr Sl ovens place tho the telephone co at the time was stringing new wires and one old one which was in ili the way of the workman was cut and tho result was as stated the wire bar having ng coiled colled itself around the an animal which became frightened and finally died from the injuries received |