Show DISTRICT COURT COUR IN SESSION lorenzo lisonbee convicted of assault other minor matters occupy the attention of the court judges howell and christensen here there is a vast difference in the attendance at the sessions of the district court this to whit there was nas last week the morad elements of the heaton murder case are zone cone and there is little interest manifested in the proceedings except by those vital lj affected FRIDAY MORNING after the sentencing of uvin ivin hea ton toll julius peter jensen the boy boi I 1 who ho made such strenuous efforts to ret get away from f rum the counts count jail and its influences fluen ces was brought into court his trial was set to follow the heaton ease cafe on a charge of passing worthless checks and obtaining money under false pretences pretenses under the eions of his attorneys he changed his plea from not guilty to one of guilty judge booth ed him to a year inthe penitentiary at hard labor and this closed his sensational case in the case of robert F ross vs john F chidester successor to the former office of probate judge for sevier an order was aas made by judge booth quieting title to certain lands SATURDAY judge howell arrived here on saturday afternoon and held a short session of court in order to hear a motion for a new trial in the ease case of black knolls creamery company vs sevier valley creamery company judge howell was the trial judge in this case last year as aa judge chidester Ch Cl desler idester nas disqualified the motion for a new nen trial had to be determined by the trial judge he I 1 listened to the motion and made an order denying it this was all the business for saturday MONDAY the next most important case to the heaton case cap was called for trial on monday morning with ith judge albert christensen cli ri stensen of the seventh judicial district on the bench he having been disqualified to try certain eases cases in his own oan district he had secured judge chidester to act tor for him this was the case of the state v lorenzo lisonbee who was charged with assaulting saul ting thomas with a deadly weapon had there been no murder trial this term of court this case would have attracted consider able attention As it is I 1 there were scarcely any spectators present when the case was tried monday afternoon was spent in securing a jury and the following gentlemen mere sworn to try the case charles carpenter G W blomquist joseph thurber levi H jackman W T ogden f bean george charlesworth chris poul poulsen en chere were few challenges in the securing of a jury as the particulars of the affair had been forgotten by most people the case lasted all day monday and tuesday As soon as aa the case was opened district attorney erickson detailed the case cage for the state to the jury the defendant was represented by G T bean and john jorgenson assisted the district attorney in the case tom tm the man who was ras assaulted by the defendant was aas the first witness sworn he testified to the assault having been committed by the defendant detailing the affair lie he stated that on the night in question he had a little difficulty with the defendant and that he took hold of lisonbee sonhee Li by the coat collar after words had passed between them and that without warning he was wab stabbed in the body by lisonbee nels nela ralph hicks and lars lara newman corro corroborated berated the story as aa detailed by the prosecuting witness all claiming that did not assault the defendant other than taking hold bold of his coat collar sheriff abbott and warren hoops told of conversations with the defendant wherein he admitted that he believed he could have held his hie own against without the ube of a knife G T bean told the jarv what he expected to prove as to the provocation for the assault and client believed himself to be in grave danger when the assault was made lorenzo Lis nobee the defendant took of the trouble between himself and Simonds cn the night of the assault after some words with the prosecuting N witness I 1 tiegs d defendant claimed that lie WAS seized by the throat and believing he was in dinger danger of great bodily in ill juri and having the open knife in his hand that he used it in order to save himself oron orion hutchinson join john hodges aud and ole laicu viere ere placed on the stand to testify to his former good reputation tor lor peace and quietness and all three told practically the same story arguments were acre mide made to the jury jur and these occupied the time of a night ebion ei sion on tuesday night on ly morning the instructions ilona of the court were and the ease case was gian to the jury the jury were out about three hours and when they returned into court a verdict of guilty of simple assault as rendered the defendant defend int v aas as sentenced to pay a fine of 75 by judge Chri christensen it hiis A s learned that there was much dissension among the jurors in the consideration ein cin of the case and some in faor of acquittal while hile uthera others favored a erdice as charged it required six ballots to the verdict |