New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
THE REASONS OF MEXICO.
wuv Cutting WAS CONVICTED OF LIBEL.

ur REPEATED HIS OFFENCE-TlS NEWSPAPERS Ci"'
CULATED IN MEXICO.
, C,rv OF MEXICO. Aug 13, via Galveston
nh, Dario O1ecai the Government organ, to-day con-
ta,us important documents regarding the Cutting case'
rcuding the full text OF the decision OF Judge ZuDia at
pasoI del Norte which show clearly and unmistakaby
that the Court held Mr. Cutting for crime begun on
Mexican soil and continued simultaneously IN Ie1as
and Mexico.
Tb,. nuts new phase the case, as itsDhows that
Judee Zubia regarded the one continuous act
Tn passing sentence Mr. Cutting tho judge said that
the basis of tho criminal proceeding asalhe'
the defendant was first PROOF @ oeioro
him that he committed offence
eassed as a crime bylaw, evidence OF which was a.
sored beyond dispute by publication which appeared
IN E Centinela on June last, a paper published
on Mexican soil; secondly, that athougn
twas true act OF conciliaton which woud
have satisfied tho offended party had 1t been comphed
with 1t was also true that this act OF conciiaton was
not fulfilled and, therefore, the crime still STANDS;
,hrd the proof Of lack OF compliance with the act OF
rouciliation Is found in q communication printed py
Cutting IN the FL Paso Sunday Herald. in which no re-
news his defamatory charges against Mealna'
and at the same time publishes an
article in III Ceatineld on Mexican SOIL
IN which he suppresses capital letters and puts the name
of Medina In microscopic type in order make Its read
ipg difficult; fourth, the renewal OF the charges
does not constitute a new onehcs' pu'
IL a confirmation OF previous charges hith'
that this being so, the criminal responsibility
OF Cutting from the publication in Ell Cennea
which was rene the Texas paper, his renewal or
ratification not constituting new crime which should
be punished with q different penalty than tha'
which corres ponds TO the first publication
Tho Judge further says that even supposng, without
couceding It, that tho crime Of defamation had been
committed Texas the fact tnat Cutting had III I'll faso
del Norte copies Of FL Pao sunday Herald OF which
Medina complained and which were by order OF the
court seized on the premises OF Su1tins on
Mexican soil, constitutes properly a con-
summation of crime according TO the penal coae.
Judge sZubia lays special emphasis on the fact that
his renewal of the libel published IN
Texas This renewal of the libel published in Texas IS
an offence, and the reversed would DO pun
ishabe under the present law IN Texas. 49,,
A. l.. Gushing, American lawyer sums up Juu9e.
Zuba's decision thus; "Mr Cutting was convicted OF
repetition OF libel first published In Mexico
and reprinted more vruently in a Texas paper,
which he then brought over aud dstreuted-in Mexc0'
and it was the distribution in Mexico OF the second libel
for which he was convicted. the libel having
es ese@ reoured eia by ihe statute Of the State Cn
huabua. Mr. Cutting pleaded In bar TO the Jurisdlc,
ti6n of the Mexican court, that the paper hau
been printed in Texas He did not. however deny hat
paper had been circulated on the Mexican siGe,
which was the faet. numerous copies hayns Th,s
aspect OF the takes the phase OF conner OF
the law Of the two countries. The puohcatloh OF the
m text Of Judge zubias decision is regarded mere as
putting the ease out Of international controversy.