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Scissorinfifs.UV ft, M. KAUH.lt;?»•* uf W. II. Tuttle.Tiiin trial was set for Monday last at Sooorro and all witnesses and lawyers on both aides were iu attenduuoo, when it was discovered that there was a technical flaw in the indictment, which had been orronenualy dated *» 1881*2.” The effect of this fiaw would hnve been that had the trial gono on and the defendant acquitted, ho would have been free of all further criminal proceedings, while on the other hand, had he been convicted the supreme court would have set the verdict asido or. the ground of the flaw in the indictment. Tho court therefore gran tod a motion of nolle proseo and required t ho defendant to give bond for 82,500 to appear before the next grand jury to beheld in Dona Ana county in September, when a fresh indictment will be preferred and the whole proceedings will be commenced de novo, and ull the heavy expenaoa incurred will have to be borne a second time. Another instance of tho delays and glorious uncertainty of the law. K. V. Chavez the well known attorney of Socorro was employed to assist Col. Fountain iu tho defense. — Lax ( 'nice* Republican.
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The Old Abe Eagle
White Oaks, New Mexico, US
Thu, Jun 08, 1893
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