Amador ledger., 1909-12-24
FIRST PROBA-
TON SENTENCE
Clarence Walker Given
Six Years Uuder New
Law.


last Monday, when Clarence Walker
was sentenced by Judge Wood for grand
larceny, after entering plea of guilty.
He killed steer belonging to the Allen
estate in the vicinity of his home near
Mount Echo, and was caught by the
officers while in the act of packing a
portion of the beef from his home in a
sack with the evident intention of
secretng it in the woods, as detailed in
the Ledger last week. The defendant
was accompanied by his attorney A.
Caminetti, and waived time for passing
sentence. He produced Geo. w.
Brown, h. H. Bagley, Geo. A. Gordon,
and William GILBERT who testified as to
the previous good character of defendant.
Thereupon Judge Wood addressed the
defendant in a most affecting manner,
his words being listened to with breath
less interest by all present. Every one
in the court room expected that Walker
would be sent to state prison, until the
Judge informed him during his address
that he was not going to send him there,
that he was going to give him another
chance to redeem himself, under very
sautary law recently passed which
gives the court the power to suspend
the execution of the sentence and allow
the defendant his liberty under certain
restrictions. This is the first sentence
under this law that has occurred in this
or adjoining foothil counties. Defend
ant is Young man, 27 years of age, and
promised that this would be life lesson
to him. He was offered employment at
the Kennedy mine and started to work
Tuesday morning. with a firm resolve to
Justify by his good conduct the act of
clemency wisely extended to him by the
court. AS this matter has awakened
keen interest throughout the county, we
publish the court order in full, which
will enable the reader to appreciate the
humane and wise purpose of the pro-
baton law. The order is as follows:
In the superior court of the state of
California, in and for the county of
Amador
The people of the state of California
VS.. Clarence V. Walker, defendant.
An information having been filed
against the defendant Clarence V.
Walker on the 18th day of December
1909, for the crime OF grand larceny COM
mitted on the 9Th day of December, 1909,
in the county of Amador, alifornia,
and the defendant having been duly ar
raigned on the said 18th day of Dec,
1909, and in open court gave his oral
plea entered upon the minutes that he
was guilty Of the ofense charged and
the court thereupon having appointed
the 18th day of Dec, 1909 at 80
O. clock A. M. as the time for pro-
nouncing judgment with the consent of
the defendant and his counsel, A.
Caminett Esq, and the defendant hav-
ing thereupon suggested that there were
circumstances which might be properly
taken into view in mitigation of punish
ment, the court, with the consent of the
defendant and district attorney fixed the
said Dec. 18th, 1909 at $50 A. M. as
the time for hearing such evidence in
mitigation of punishment:
That thereafter on the 18th day of
Dec. 1909 the district attorney with the
defendant and his said counsel appeared
in court at the time appointed for hear
ing such evidence in mitigation of
punishment, and for pronouncing judg-
ment, and thereupon the defendant
called as witnesses in his behalf, |
George Brown, r. H. Bagley Geo. A.
Gordon, William Gilbert and Geo F.
Mack, the defendant was there sworn as
witness in his own behalf. And at
II ;55 A. M. with the consent of the de-
PENDANT. the court continued the case
for hearing of further evidence in mit-
CATION of punishment and for pronounce
ing judgment until Monday Dec, 20,
1909 at 30 A. NJ.
That thereafter and on this 10th day of
December, 1909, at the time appointed,
the district attorney appeared with the
defendant and his counsel, and the court
being duly advised, and it appearing
from the circumstances of the defendant
who is over the age of sixteen years,
that the ends of justice will be sub
served thereby;
1t is hereby ordered and adjudged that
the imposing of sentence upon defend
ant be and is hereby suspended, and
that such suspension shall continue for
a period OF six years from the date of