Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-23
ONE OPINION By
SUPREME COURT
1t Reverses IJugdment in Cri-
minal Case From Rio
Arriba County
WATER BOARD IN SESSION
Mounted Police on Trail of Hat
ton Murder Suspects and
Make Important Arrests

Territorial Travelling Auditor c. v.
Stafford today received the following
additional tax rolls: Santa Fe county,
total assessment $2,386,205; SOcorro
county, total assessment $2,495,627;
Rio Arriba county, total assessment
$1,18S,902.
Supreme Court.
In the territorial supreme court to-
day, one opinion, the twenty-third
thus far, was handed down. 1t was
in the case Of the Territory of New
Mexico, appellee, VS.. Reynel Garcia,
appellant, from Rio Arriba county.
The opinion is written by Associate
Justice Ira A. Abbott and reverses the
lower court remanding the case for
new trial. Reynel Garcia was tried
and convicted in the first judicial dis
trict court for Rio Arriba county of
an assault with intent to murder his
wife Teresa Lobato de Garcia. The
syllabus says: "The protection against
needless humiliation through ques-
tions put in cross examination which
courts should extend to witnesses tes-
tifying before them should not be
carried so far as to exclude questions
as to facts clearly affecting the credi-
bility of the testimony which witness
has given on the direct examination.
When conviction of criminal offense
is shown, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 1925, C. L. 1897, to
affect the credit of a witness, such
conviction must stand as a fact not
open to explanation by the witness"
This afternoon the case of the Ter
ritory of New Mexico, appellee, VS..
R. H. Pierce, appellant, was submit
ted to the court on briefs. The case
was brought up from Bernalillo coun-
ty, but the defendant, who had been
superintendent of the territorial asy-
lum for the blind at Alamogordo
stands charged with an atrocious at
tack upon one of his wards while at
the Albuquerque fair.
In case No. 1884, Charles Meleni
and J. D. Eakin, appellants, VS.. Alex.
Freige & Bros, appellees, the remit
ittur having been filed, the decision
of the lower court was affirmed.
In cases Nos. 1886 and 1898, motions
for rehearing was overruled. The
cases are Emilia M. Perea, appellee,
VS.. The State Life Insurance Com
pany of Indianapolis, Indiana, appel
liant, decided in favor of the appellee,
from Sandoval county, and Territory
of New Mexico, appellee, VS.. Thomas
M. Harwood, appellant.
Cases Nos. 1882, 1917 and 1882 were
argued and submitted. They are
George A. Davidson, plaintiff, Eta
Owens, ct al, defendants, appellants,
VS.. Citizens National Bank of Ros-
well, defendant, appellee. Amarillo
Hardware Co., appellant, VS.. J. F..
McMurray, appellee. J. M. Cowles,
appellant, VS.. J. J. Hagerman, appel
lee, Annie o. Hagerman and Herbert
J. Hagerman, administrators of the
appellee, being substituted in his
place.
Assistant Attorney General Harry
S. Clancy announced the death of E.
A. Fiske, yesterday afternoon, and the
court adjourned for the day in his
memory.
Board of Water Commissioners.
The board of water commissioners
met this afternoon in the Office of
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
livan. to consider the three appeals
ir the important applications for the
waters of the Rio Lucero in Taos
county, the appellants being the Taos
Valley Land Company, Malaquias Mar
tinez ct al, and H. F. Robinson for
the Pueblo Indians of the pueblo of
Taos. Other appeals to be taken up
are in the applications of j. D..
Wheeler of Liberty for the Westwater
testant being Robert S. Smith. Also
the Farmers Development Company,
Springer, Colfax county, case, for
waters of the Rayado.
Territorial Engineers Office.
The office of the territorial engin-
eer is compiling the second annual bl-
ennial report of the Office which will
contain many valuable data. The Of
flee has received the following bonds
with applications for water rights:
Alamogordo improvement Company
for waters of La Luz, $4,000; S. H.
Brown of Ration, $3.50; Thomas L. Lof.
tus, of Durango, Colorado, $4,000; E.
T. Foster ct al, of Aztec, $4,000; T.
P James of Des Moines, $3.50; William
H. Bartlett of Vermejo Park, Colfax
county, $500.
Mounted Police Are Busy.
The Mounted Police have been do
ing good work the past week. They
cleared out the immoral elements at
Mogollon, Socorro county, closed up