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Show WILL STAY IN THE COUNTY JAIL. For the Supreme Court Can't See Any Circumstances on Which to Belease Brifr Hampton. In the Supreme Court, this morning, Judge Powers delivered his opinion in the B. Y. Hampton appeal case, affirming the decision of the lower court. The opinion reviews very fully the points set forth in the appeal, and dwells with particular force on the allegation that the jurors had been summoned in a manner to invalidate the trial. The Judge proceeds to show that the reason that no Mormons were selected for the jury was not because the defendant was a Mormon, but because that ; it. was a well-known fact that Mormons would prove partial jurors. In referring to the exception relating to the house of Mrs. Field being one of ill fame kept for the purpose that persons could resort within for prostitution, the opinion is conclusive as showing the fact had been established beyond an uncertainty. If Hampton had been alone in the transaction trans-action and had entered into the arrangement arrange-ment with the woman as a matter of business, then the conspiracy charge could "not have been established, but it had been conclusively proven that there were other parties concerned con-cerned in the action and that there was sufficient evidence to show that the movement which Hampton claims was inaugurated in the interests of morality to protect young girls and expose their offenders, was a well organized scheme to bring about what Mormons would be pleased to regard as a parallel for polygamy ; and also to accomplish a retaliatory re-taliatory measure refWtino' rm thonffitara of the law and those supporting and aiding aid-ing in the enforcement of the Edmunds law touching the sexual offenses of the Mormon people. The opinion was assented to by Judges Zane and Bore-man.' |