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Show Jailing Jurors in Southern Utah. Constable Chas. Lammersdorf of Frisco, brought in six prisoners from that burg, last night, says the Beaver Vtonian, of the 17th. The gentlemen committed were summoned as jurors in a case brousht bv James Hedges against Peter Kemple, for keeping a pig-stye in such a place as to be a nuisance. After the case had been tried before the justice, the jurors ju-rors retired and agreed upon a verdict which they would not surrender before the costs were secured. The justice thereupon there-upon requested Mr. Hedges to pay the costs, which he did. Then a commitment commit-ment was issued and the six jurors were each fined $10 or ten days in jail for contempt con-tempt in not rendering a verdict as required re-quired bylaw they should pay or no pay. The commitment is very defective and it is hardly thought our jailor will be justified in receiving these gentlemen. It is understood that Mr. Denny will endeavor en-deavor to obtain a habeas corpus before the Probate Court to-day. That justice over there in Frisco, is liable to get into trouble if he allows such things to be done. He had better read the law a little. |