Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-14
FOR HIGHER
SALARIES
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS BET.
TER COMPENSATION FOR
COUNTY ATTORNEYS.
MEETING A BIG SUCCESS
Larger Attendance Than at Any Previ.
Gus Convention Ever Held BY State
Association of County Attorneys
Morning Session.

association OF Sounty Attorneys
Morning Session.
From Wednesdays Daily.
"We recommend that the laws be
so changed as to require a higher
compensation to be paid to county at
torneys than is now provided by
law" was one of the clauses in the re-
port Of the committee on law reform
which was approved by the State AS.
sociation of County Attorneys at the
session yesterday afternoon. The re.
port was submitted by w. H. Killpack
Of Council Bluffs who said that he
considered they resent provisions suf-
flcient in Pottawattamie and Lee
counties owing to the fact that in
creased compensation is provided fol-
where the district court is held in two
places in the county.
The second provision approved by
the association was as follows: "That
the laws be SO changed that when a
defendant in criminal case has beer
tried for any offense which includes
lesser offenses of the same nature and
has been convicted of one of the les
ser and included offenses and makes
application for new trial and such
new trial is granted either by the tria
or appellate courts, the defendant shall
again be put upon trial for the highest
grade of the offense charged in the
indictment instead of as at presen
permitting the defendant to take ad
vantage of the verdict as an acquitta
of all grades of the offenses above the
one found in the verdict and at the
same time be not himself bound b.
the verdict in any particular.
CLAUSES REJECTED
Clauses recommending that the laws
be changed so as to permit the count.
attorney at any time before the sub
mission OF criminal case to the jury
to amend indictments so as to charg,
the crime that was intended in tn,
original Indictment; to amend the Law
in regard to the taxation of the cost
Of civil cases to change the presen
law in regard to the selection of jur
ors; were rejected by the association
Morning Session.
The annual address of President U
G. Whitney the first number of tn,
program of the morning session will
be found on page 6 of this paper.
John Hammill of Britt opened tn
discussion on Difficulties Encounter
ed With the One District Road Law.
The discussion covered wide rang
and was very interesting.
f. H. Noble of Eldora opened tn
discussion on Have the Members O
the Grand Jury the Right to Continu
Voting on Case Before Them Unit
They Secure the Necessary Numbe
! of Votes to Indict?" and H. L. Gano
of Boone opened the discussion o.
MAY Indictment Not Made Matte
of Record, But Lost, Be Supplied Wit
]. Copy?"
A number Of interesting discussion
were on the program for the aftel
noon session and the election of Of
ficers will be held
Successful Convention.
/ One of the attorneys present statet
this morning that the convention wa
the largest attended that had ever beer
held by the association not exceptin,
the one held at Des Moines last year
About forty. of the public prosecutor
of Iowa are in attendance.
Among those present and the cour
ties they are from are: B. H. Mallory
Franklin; w. c. Bryant, Cass; c. ]
Burling, Butler; H. l.. Canoe, Boone
G. D. Musmaker, Adair; NJ j. Lee, EN-
nett; E. G. Albert, Green; John Ham
mill, Hancock; F. H. Noble, Hardin
G. G. Upton, Howard; M. M. White
Ida; w. H. Palmer, Jackson; P. H
Cragen, Jasper; T. M. Fairchild, John
son; G. J. Cash, Jones; T. Harrington
Kossuth; E. W. Drake, Lucas; Simol
Fisher, Lyon; W. S. Cooper, Madison
F. E. Northup, Marshall; G. E. Dean
Mills; w. L. Smith. Monona: Josepl
Morton, O'Brien; G. T. Struble, Ply
mouth; Jesse A. Miller, Polk; w. H
Killpack, Pottawattamie; F. w. Nea
Davenport; S. c. Huber, Tama; Senec
Cornell, Wapello; Oliver Gordon, Wir
nebago; U. G. Whitney, Woodbury.
M. A. Smith, Buchanan; O. NJ. Mitchell
Bremen
State Bar Association.
A large number of the county Al
, torneys will remain in the city for tn
annual convention of the State Bar al
sociation. Thursday and Friday. Th
: meetings will be free and the public /
invited to attend.