The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 All persons familiar with tho efforts made by some lawyers to find loopholes In the law through which delinquent clients may escape their just deserts will appreciate some satirical verses in the Docket for September. The verses are included with some comments on the firm stand which the criminal court of appeals of Oklahoma has taken against reversals on technicalities. They are entitled ''The Up-to-Dat De- fense of Cye N. Ide," are credited to J. w Foley. and read as follows:
 Remarks by Counsel Now, may it please the- court and you. Peers of the realm, who come to do Your highest duty in the land As jurymen. you understand I outline briefly for our side The case of MT CyN. Ide-- My client here-whose whole life shows Him pure as the new falling snows, A victim, 1 may say, of chance And much confusing circumstance.
 Preliminary Objections First, then, we ask the court to quash The whole indictment--pray read Bosh On Bluff and Bluster, chapter two; Ink must be black and never blue; And if the ink used Is not black Iris ground to send the whole case
 back
 The rule, pray please the court, is plain But here I read the law again I quote now from authority Of Blow and Buncombe, chapter three If any 't' shall not be crossed, Or dot of any 'i be lost, These grave omissions then. shall be Enough to set defendant freev So here we have the law; and see Here is naked uncrossed"t'i
 Collateral Exceptions So the indictment, then. is wreck ed Full of omission and defect. Judge Pinn Hedde, in his able work On Fifteen Thousand Ways to Jerk The Props from Prosecution, says. "A comma standing out of place In the indictment may upset The very best indictment yet. Far better Murder should go free That we should have an uncrossed IT"
 Particular Error So, on these vital points l might Insist upon my clients right To be set free; but there are more On which we set much greater store' The witness Blank. when on the stand, Was sworn while raising his left hand :; And so his evidence, no doubt. The honored court will have thrown
 out,
 And in support of this read From Shyster on the High Courts Need Of Being Even More than Loath To Tolerate a Left Hand Oath'
 General Objections If this were all. it were enough TO set my client free-see Bluff on Half a Thousand Reasons Why The Law Loves Tfchnicality. But. lest your honut should refuse Our claims, my client now renews Objection to the court, it looks, Its jurisdiction and its books; Objection to the evidence, Ipdictment--as to form and sense; Objection to the desks and chairs The tables and state counsel's airs In fact. my client now objects To everything; and he expects To show, by Bluff, by Crook, by Bragg. By Shyster. Petit Fogg and Snagg By that great friend of crime, D. Lay, By Trick, by Sub Ter Fuge and Stay, That he should be set free because Of these loopholes in the laws.
 Constitutional Privileges Nv Il > iie. now please The court, no technicalities Would urge, save that they all trans gress The constitutional--expre Implied, declared and specified Prerogatives of Cy N. Ide, Who stands here. making naught but one Request--that justice shall be done! And We are here. as man to man, And mea -t ac Her if we can, Express Reservations Now, ? -lk we do not waive A single right that we can rave;