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Show KICKING AGAINST TnE COST. Miner ITJovcs That the Government Put Fp for the Cost of Con. Tictingr If im. The attention of the Third District Court wa3 first called this morning to a motion on the part of Aurelius Miner by Mr. Harkness, to retax the costs of the prosecution in the recent convicting U. C. case. Mr. Harkness objected to the Marshal's fees of $90 and the $50 fees of the attorneys. Several small items, not particularized., in the way of Grand Jurors and witnesses' fees in the case were objected ob-jected to as not belonging to the judgment judg-ment rendered in the costs against Miner. Mr. Harkness claimed that the actual costs commenced with the reading of the indictment, and that jurors and witnesses' fees should bo charged to the Government, Govern-ment, and not entered as Marshal's fees in that officor's bill of account. Mr. Varian, - in several references, showed that no provisions existed in Utah governing these expenses in criminal I suits, but iu civil cases the costs of trial are regulated. Clerk Miller, of the Marshal's Mar-shal's office, was put on the stand, and certified to the correctness of the account, stating that should the costs of witnesses and the twelve jurors be. differently disposed dis-posed of, still an unentered bill for $40 could not be objected to in the authorized list of expenses. The real objections presented ' were against charging the fees of the prosecution prosecu-tion and Grand Jury to Mr. Miner as Marshal's costs, instead of to the government. govern-ment. The Court took the matter under advisernent, and a decision will shortly be. rendered. |