Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-03
Robertson Must Serve

According to a decision handed down by the territorial supreme court yester- day, William Robertson, city marshal of Stafford, is guilty of manslaughter and must serve sentence of fifteen months in the territorial penitentiary.
 Owing to a strong plea of self de- fense, set up by Robertson when he was tried at Solomonville some time ago, for the murder of Wayne Pursley, the decision of the supreme court comes as something of surprise to the peo- pie of Graham and Gila counties, who were interested in the affair.
 Something like year ago, Robertson shot and killed Pursley, while the lat ter was resisting arrest. Robertson who was at that time city marshal of Sat- ford, and who has held his position since that time, was formally charged with murder and after a lengthy trial in which the defendant set up strong plea of self defense, he was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to serve fifteen months in the penlten- ! tiary.
 Robertson. who has been at liberty on bonds since his sentence, will probably be committed at once.
 Rose Discharged Justin o. Rose, who was convicted of murder at the last term of court at Solomonville and sentenced to life i'm prisonment was given his liberty, by the reversal of the decision of the low CT court
 Rose was indicted and tried for the | murder of Con Sullivan, goatherd, m | the mountains of Graham county. Al | though the evidence against him was purely circumstantial a strong web was woven around him by the prosecution, tending to show that in company with another man who was indicted put nev- CT arrested, he had killed Sullivan in order to cover another crime of robbery.
 When the matter came before the SUI preme court. it was held that the stat utorv grounds of the evidence against 1 Rose were insufficient. Rose has been in the penitentiary since last Novem- 1 Der.
 Van Veen Wins | lr E, B. Van Veen, who took to the SUI preme court judgment of F. $. Nave, ! holding that Graham county could not ] lawfully pay ms expenses while attend ing court at SOlomOnville, won his case, the declsion of the lower court being reversed.
 Van Veen sued for the sum of $lO7
 contingent expenses during the attend ance of one term of court at Solomon
 vile. When Judge Nave ruled against him. he carried the case to the supreme
 court to test the matter, with the re
 suit that Judge Nave's decision was re
 versed.
 This decision is of some importance
 as it means that all court reporters
 throughout the territory will in the fu I ture receive contingent expenses while
 attending court in their district in
 cities other than their hOme Tax Suit Settled The famous tax suit of COchlse cOun
 ty against the Copper queen, an actiOl involving the sum of $25O,OOO, has final |, ly been decided in favor of the Coppe .Queen, after several years of litigation Holding that because of an irregular ity in the assessment rolls that tn payment of taxes for a certain yea
 could not be lawfully collected, the of
 fcials of the Copper Queen declined t
 make a settlement with the board O supervisors of Cochlse county. Tn ] matter was fought out in the dstric . court, where the suit was decide against the county, after which it wa | carried to the supreme court. | Payment of this immense sum wa | evaded upon technicafty but as tn | supreme court has held that the none
 cannot be collected, Cochise county al | parently has no recourse but to los the money.
 The suit of Ryan vs. McKittrick