The Springdale news., 1914-04-17

delinquent clients may escape tnell just deserts will appreciate some sa tr.caI verses in the Docket for Sep tember The verses are included with some comments on the firm stand which the Criminal Court oi Appeals of Oklahoma has taken against reyersals on technicalities They are entitled The Up-to-D Defense of Cy x. 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 outline briefly for our side The case of Mr Cy N. Ide- Ny client here-whose whole life
 shows
 Him pure as the new falling snows {; X victim, I may say, of chance And much confusing circumstance.
 Preliminary Objections. First, then, we ask the court to
 qaash
 The whole indictment-pray read
 Bosh
 On Bluff and Buster. chapter two: Ink must be black and never blue; And if the ink used is not black sTis ground to send the whole case
 back" The rule, pray please the court, is
 plain,
 3at here I read the law again 1 quote now from authority 9f Blow and Buncombe. chapter
 three If any [ shall not be crossed, Or d8t Of any i be lost. F4ese grave omiss oas, then shall be Enough U set .endant iree.s 50 her We have the law; and see Here IS naked. unerossed "t9t
 Collateral Exceptions. 5o the indictment is wrecked 'a l of omuis on and defeet. lldge Pinn Htdde. in his able work oa Fifteen Thousand Ways to Jerk fhe Props from Prosecution says: "A comma, standing out Of place n the indictment. may upset
 hz fsrs best ind ctmeat yet.
 s4r better Murder should go free Tat We sEoIld have an nncross-
 cd ..t.a
 Particular Error. D, Oil these vital points l might zlsizt upon my clients right fo be set free; but there are more 3a which We set III ch sreater store; The witness Blank, when on the
 stand,
 ! as sworn while raising his left
 hand;
 Aad 50 his evidence, no doubt. rhe h9nored court will have thrown
 out A1a n support of this read Er9n Shy ster on the High Court s
 Need J. 3eing E 4ea NJ ire than Loath I5 Tolsrate Left Hand Oath.
 General Objectiors. tbls were all. 1t were enough To t my cl.enat free see Bluff 3a Haf Thousand Reasons Why fh- Law Loves a TechnieaIity. 34t, lest your honor should refuse ) 1T claims, my client now reneNs to the court. it's looks, fts jurisdiction and it's books; Objection to the evidence. as to form and sense. to the desks and chairs The tables and state counsefs airs n fact, my client now objects To everything; and he expects To show, by Bluff, by Crook, by
 Bragg. 35 shyster, Petit Fogg and snagg, By that great friend of crime, D.. Lay. By Trick, by Subb Terr Fuge and
 Stay. That he should be set free because Of all these loopholes in the laws.
 Constitutional Privileges. Ny client Cy N lde, now please The court. no technicalities Would urge. save that they all trans
 gross The constitutional express, Implied, declared and specified of Cy N Ide. Hho stands here, making naught but
 one Request that Justice shall be done! And we are here. as man to man, And mean to do Her if We can,
 Express Reservations. Now please the court, We do not
 waive \ single right that we can save; And We except-some more, some sTn ;,.,o,r o1a orJ uyitpoccao