' A i:i:cknt decision of tho Supremo"
, Lourt in California will jjivo new trials
to at leant a dozen sentenced murtlerers,
is the decision places the burden of
! proof, even in murder, on the State,
, wheroas the old d'oKlon. whloh has
! oeen followed for thirty years, insists
upon thodefendantrebuitingthechargo
oi mnllco.
'' lawyerti In Selnia. Cal., who
bet ten dollars in court anil made the
; judge stakeholder, afterwards regretted
I their aotion, for as soon as quiet was
stored tho judge pioked up tho coin and
; ordered, his clerk to enter a lino of ten
dollars each tho attornevs for
,. ml whosn limbM radiate ,l llhtnlaB ' contempt of court, and to give a receipt '
in all , for tho iuoney.
