Show LEGAL tomfoolery this week we were treated again is as we are arc about every time court convenes to another illustration ol 01 the tomfoolery the absurdities which have been built up aro our court proceed ure to hamper prosecutions and to thwart justice our own court Is not to blame delther belthe r our jud judge ge nor our tors and what Js 3 here said Is 14 not nol intended as any reflection on oil them As a matter ot of fact they aie enrit lid led to commendation tor for the atti tude they have taken IT out atif the tern teni ot of legal technicalities sh shackles achles them and all courts seems little short ot of in many respects one onders Vi Ni some times it if we lost sight ot of the purposes durpos vil f which courts were or originally lually established and are maintaining them now tor for the benefit of n the tha guilty why should evid evidencia enca be with withheld liela from a jury and even from tin the judge on some mere technicality or why should guilty be fre tred fred d without even any sem semblance blence of a trial because of some slipup sripup on oil tin the pait ot of an inexperienced officer as so often happens happens why should a ones once in jeopardy plea protect one wliam newly available evidence would convict beyond the shadow oi of a doubt what the public expects from its courts or rather what it has a right to expect Is that cases be heard on oil their merits with all the evidence considered and without being juggled around through a maze inaze ot of legal technicalities which finally exclude from consideration anything of an incriminating nature lae until the public demands reforms of the nature indicated every term of court in which justice Is thwarted by the proceed ure followed will be one more invitation to lawlessness and a further evidence of the impotence of our courts to cope with crime |