The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-01
JUDGE HAzEN'S CASES.
Mr. Cav Makes Affidavit and mr..
Bird Writes q Statement.

Statements concerning the number OF
! Judge Hazen's cases reversed in the SUI
preme and appellate courts have caused
the court stenographer to make the fol-
lowing affidavit:
State Of Kansas, Shawnee county, IS.
r. FL. Cav, of lawful age, being first
now and has been for nearly ten years
last past official reporter of the district
court of Shawnee county; that Hon. 2.
T. Hazen has been the judge of said
court for about eight years last past
Afiant further says that a. part of his
official duties as reporter of said court
consists in the preparation of records
and transcripts in cases appealed from
said court to a higher court, and that
from his participation in the trial of all
cases tried in said court since Judge Ha-
zen became the judge thereof, and from
the preparation Of records in cases tried
by Judge Hazen and appealed from said
court, he is well acquainted with the
final disposition of all such cases ap-
pealed from judgments rendered by
Judge Hazen. Affiant further says that
he has made q careful examination of
the dockets and reports of the supreme
and appellate courts of this state, and
finds the facts to be as follows:
That since Judge Hazen became Judge
Of said court he has tried fifty-seven
cases which were appealed to the su-
preme court and that thirty-ei Of
these cases were there affirmed and
nineteen reversed. being, in round num-
cent. reversed; that Judge Hazen has
tried, during the same period, seventy
one cases which were appealed to the
Kansas court of appeals, and of this
number f1fty-three were there affirmed
and eighteen reversed; being, in round
numbers, rs per cent affirmed and %
per cent. reversed.
Afiant further says that he has made
a careful examination and comparison
of a list of cases published in the KAN
sas State Register of October 10, 1900;
that said list contains a number of cases
that were never tried in said district
court or by Judge Hazen; that said list
contains other cases that were tried in
said district court before Judge Hazen
became the judge thereof. and contains
the statement that others Of the cases
named in said list were reversed, when,
in fact, they were affirmed, and con-
tains one or more instances where the
case cited is duplicated in the list with
the statement of its reversal in each du-
plication; that said list shows a much
larger percentage of cases reversed than
the facts and the records show.
R. H. CAV.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 30th day of October, 1900
(Seal.) A. M. CALLAHAN,
Clerk District Court
City Attorney Bird also makes the fol-
lowing statement:
Believing that a Misrepresentation ex-
lists in the minds of some of our citizens
as to Judge Hazen's conduct in the trial
of persons charged with selling intox1-
eating liquors, and inasn1uch as have
tried more cases of that character be-
fore Judge Hazen in the last five years
than any other lawyer in this county,
it is but fair to say that at no time has
Judge Hazen, in any case have been
Interested in deprived the prosecution,
directly or indirectly. of a fair trial, or
placed any obstacle in the way of a con-
viction where there was sufficient evil
dence to warrant verdict of guilty
against the accused.
Very respectfully,
W. A S. BIRD,
City Attorney.