Show THE SNOW CASE ITniu wful Coliubllatinn Nut n Con Iliiuous OlfriiNc WvMiiStmiN Fob 8t decision wns rcn doted by Ohio United States Supreme Court yesterday In tho polj gamy case of Lorenzo Snow if petitioner which comes up on appeal from the Third District Court of Utah do iiylng the petitioners application for n writ of habeas corpus Know wns tried nnd found guilty of unlawful cohabitation upon three indictments which woo nil alike except thnt they covered different periods of time Tho Court sentenced him to n flits of SviOO lUlU six months imprisonment tho several terms of impilsonment to follow one another I an-other rue prisoner after serving out tho first term tiled n petition for n writ of habeas corpus nnd n discharge from prison on the giound that ho could not bo legally I I sentenced to three terms of imprisonment for one continuous offense The Court denied I de-nied his application and he thereupon appealed ap-pealed Ibis Court holds thnt Tilt omNSK 01 COHABITATION In tho sense of the stntuto is inherently n continuous offense having duration nnd not an offense consisting of an isolated act 1helo tICS therefore only a single ollcnso committed prior to tile time tho indictments were found I his court is therefore unanimously unan-imously of the opinion thnt tbo order nnd judgment of this Third Judicial District of Utah must bo remanded to that court with direction to grant tho writ of habeas corpus prayed for mid to take such proceedings hm thereon ns miy bo in conformity with the law nnd not inconsistent with tile opinion I of this court Opinion by Justice lllatchforO |