, 1879-03-12
Practice net could 70 Into effect. would mako

Practice net could 70 Into effect. would mako
arnIrr ycar's w0rk for tt1c Court.
Every lawyer III tic State. Mua Tho Judges of
MI ti!o Courts, wero impr@escd viii. the nccts.
sity ot relieving the Supreme CURT; A1,A that
tn,t''l be lono only through ltn Appellate
C0,lrts. II n1i criminal cnses, nil c1cctmcnt
suits, MI eaees that Infected frcclmA Or frnl-
chlae. md nh enaus Tint wcru not tlpal IN the
Appellate Court, vrrc appcnleA directly to tic
Supreme Coitst, Tho reIiaf would havn Gen very
blttlc Intlcctl. At least unc.l>nf Of the casGa
tlnt arc apncalc4 fr0tn tho Circuit na1l County
Courts arc Included ia the cr!nl!nal cases. eject
nr ircchods, anEl It Is snfc to say Tint oneaf Of
all the ntlier cases arc controversies In Which
ovcr 200 Is involved. 1t will be seer from
this tint tho Supreme Court would uh!y hn7o
been relieved OF onc.funrtti Of lis lab0ra. WIN
TINT rclscf, It never could hasc cleared Us
doekcts, Lttigants wouisl have t,ecn lnc1sctl up
In the Supreme Court TIN criminal win wo'l!d
have appealed it,en coull retnatn free for three,
reversed the jadgmer. of tl.c; inferior Court,
thcll, instead ot Ollo ygas's delay, thrre wonlu
he three or four sears, ".!uring which wit
nesses may bc purchased, may .lie, nav run oil,
or ay 's"SsS "y So n9SSp mtsre r. :se f'ss'0' 'i
An tho law was enacted, while the. cares wcro
rend!ng In tllu Appellate Courts The Supreulo
Court was cnfutrcl OIL It's overloaded dnCkes,
am tn TIC tho two years. time, tlIe greater part
Of tho old cases i,Ave hecn disposed Of.
Instead OF thlcc-fuurss Of Inc cascs that were
appealed from the Inferior courts Eo!nE TO thu
Supreme Court, tferu As not o,le-tchtf VI thetn
gum there. THE TRIBUNE can verify tiis by nm
examination of the Appellate Court t1ociet In
tl.u First District. Nrnrly onc-flalf uf tue cases
that are appealed are tuvcraed; thcY are then
acttled or tried again In thu inferior cs,urtS;
md not ono fl four Ut them will EVER get To
ihg Appellate Court again.
OF these t4at urn affirmed not more than ono
IL i've will 6e appealed to The Supreme Court.
Tic Appellate Co,lrts ali have two tertns year.
80 tlmt onr-half Of ille clscsihat 20 to tic su-
prctnu Court through the Appellate Courts nro
not delayed in getting 10 tIn Supreme Court.
And when tlte old eases nre all Disposed Of, 80
lint the Supreme Court eau dispose os NIL tho
clscs On Its dOcket 1T zach term, 1t VIII result In
the decision Of Il ease In thu Supreme Court, nj"
ter passing through tie Appellate Court, IN less
ttls tltan II tile casea went direct to the Slt-
prcIHe Court Un account of the rollef tlMt Ia
given by tho Appellate Cnurt.
In conclusion, let mt aEam remind TIE TR1B-
UHE TINT Its rcpeated tlelsts at the lawyers a1c
uncaflcd for; and 1t hus OCCURRED 50 often tlat
u 1ppears to have grown chronic with TIN
TRIBUNE, fs it bccuuao THE TK1nuHR stp-
poses tint lawycrs aFs unpopular Will, tllu peo-
pic, n1lll TINT tcnllnclat!on of them Will Aup-
Dly the alsc1re Of sound reasoning, or as TIIE
TRIBUNE sunlc private Irfeyance from the law
ycrs TINT llas eulbittcrcd II agninst the,n3
Perhaps It ts not either, but THE TEinuNE's
idca Of u lnwyar's honcsty mud Integrity is taken
from tlle character Of ilioso WHO nr0 found In
the lowest police courts, Or HisSe characters
are found In Dle!scns' writings.
1. N. HAssErr.