Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-16
ANAMENDMENT OFFERED.

A bIli has been ID troduced ID the leg islature, by the judiciary commlttee, as | a su bstitule for house bill No. 34, and known as house uiI, Nh. 49. to spend the penal code in Inc matt ter of larceny l and to repaai poruons of saio code. This bill If IL becomes law, as most un- Idoubtedly it will, will do away with that dlsgraceful class legislation by which flesh was made of one class of property and fish of another. In the new bill grand larceny is defined, first, as taking property to the value of 100 dollars or more; second, as taking property from be person of another.
 Larceny in all other cases is petit lar ceny.
 Grand larceny is punishable by inn prisonment in the territorial prison for not less than three months nor more
 than two years.
 Petit larceny IS punish bic by a fine
 not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment m the county jail not less than nor more than nioety days, or both.
 Sec. 6. In all cases of pstt larceny,
 Jr other mlsdemeanor, the one charged here with snail be tried beforethe near- sst justice of the peace of the precinct where the otfeuse Was committed, and d jury composed of SIX electors of said precinct. If tbere be no justice of the peace in said precinct, then ths trial snail bs had before the nearest justice ln the county where the otfense WAS committed. The ter. itory ana the ac- ,used shall each have two peremptory challenges to jurors onl! anu they shall nave such ch 4llenges for cause as Is now l allowed by law in the trial of criminal ,ases in the district courts. Two thirds | Jt the jury shall be suttic cient to tnd i verdict, and in t3e eVent that verdict | IS found in any case where all the jurors | do not agree on the yerdlct. 'hen and ID every such case m order to ind a | verdict at least two thirds O. all the | jurors must agree upon a verdict and must each slgn the nams; and ell yer ilcts so f. una shall be the verdict of the | jury to the same extent and for all pur- poses as though ali of said jurors agreed | thereto. The iory shall, In case they ind the accused guilty, also determine and fix in their verdict the punishment
 
 Sac.7. In all criminal cases, whether the same be felony or misdemeanor, the verdict of jury that the person or persons accused are guilty of the otfense charged, shall deprive the one so con- gicted of his citizenship; and such prr- son shall not thereafter be entitled to vote at any election ID this territory until such citizenship shall be restored % such convicted person Tn the manner hereafter prescribed.
 Sec. &. When any person shall have Deen deprived of his ctzenship and right~ to vote us Is herein provided, hIe citizenship and right to vote shall be -estored to hiln only In the matter here provided, namely: When the probate iuoge, sheriff and district attorney, of De Louuty herein auch person com uitted ths offense of which ne was con- sicted, shall each mite and sigu letter O thu governor of the territory, where iG
 hey shall declare that such person has IS nov leading an honest Rno 4 repLtab life, and has paid ID full all ,osts adjudged agaInst him in said COZ then the governor may issus 70 s1cn person paper, to be sealed with the seal of the territory and attest sd by the secretary of the territory, said
 ap, to reclte the facts and to restore O suea person b 8 citizenship and right o vote; and thereafter such person shall be s cltlzsn ana shall have right to vote at all elections to the same extent hat be had prior to his said conviction.