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5 cor ee 4 Nill the Vig ites_ Return “ora F .. ae re ai The rowing Guicert ‘ , criminals, the gfowing | di ord of courts for the rights the public to be protected from murderers, i Siicers oll Over thd country. + - - We ck yp % in one rather tea neh court of the ie ates ruled that es are subject to scrutiny b née, § find this hod not been corrected by a sorts of the minal and traltotoys element wou been free to brovse . But other decisions of the supre court and of other courts ; vera Te Amon wha confessed to rope and was senignced to death-aft- ‘OF a jury trial wos freed by the United Statefty rete court be use there was an-intarval of 19 hours between AIr7 and ‘Dis arraignmedt, - which the ‘court called “unnecessary del ay i, Another hos feen twice convicted of. murder ond sentenced or fo die, ond both convictions Have been ruled out by. the appel- fae iste courts because of the same kind of “dalay”.” | 4:~ a | A shooting occurred in 1949. A man wos tried five times for # crime and convitted ftiree times, the lost conviction being ff: Mey 4, 1956, Most of the trials raw out of the effect of con ‘flicting Jegal rules. Thig month the court of oppecis freed the 9% ‘criminal on the groy: d thot he hog not been given a Speedy Another court of appenls reversal ) : essed to murdaring g girl. The ruling wos that tde long o time, f 116 hours, occurred een his arrest and arraignment, =: ° 4 _. There is a fang jist of criminals freed from prosecution for major crimes because of aileged Insanity, and then being freed within 6 short time from an osylum as -being cured. ¢. The new court rulings would require the arraignment ond trial 3 je! many innocent persons. who now may be held foro few i IMoys tind fred when police detective work reveals thet they 7m {are innocent. Under present rules if the police’ arrest someone on suspicion in order to held hin for investigction,. they must | alse immediately charge him with the crime "| else see_a higher tourt free hin sadist Le ne 'z It is such’ conditions gs these, where the ourts make so ler rules thot justice is unable te function sa of the thaye not been OF ea sath, islative ‘enactment ond “it Is (Coubttul thot oll of she con wee gy a a ey is that of a man ‘whe con oe imazé in which if is cought, that leads to vigitonte organizations (ped lynching parties, because the public must protect itself Mahia nla . * 4. 27ES SA 440 DEC a7 sT —a —— —= The Livingston Enterprise Livingston, Montana Saturday, November 30, 1957 pet Ee me eter rename the —