The Alaska citizen., 1917-06-18
GOYETTE GETS
 TERM IN THE
 PENITENTIARY

Louis Goyctte, the defendant in what are known as the Skoogcy Gulch shooting cases. was last night sentenced by Judge Charles E. Bun n,H to serve three years ii th, United States penitentiary at Me Neils Island. After listening to the sentence, passed by the judge at the end of a lengthy discourse to the defendant, Attorney Thomas A. Mar guam intimated that an appeal from taken It had been previously in tended that court should be adjourn ed this evening for the summer or until the court returns from the lower river next October, but, acting on the request of Attorney Mar quam. Judge Bunnell put over the adjournment until 10 o'clock tomor TOW morning.
 The matter of the sentencing of | Goyette was scheduled to be brought up at o'clock yesterday afternoon It was, however, postponed until s o'clock last night at the request of the attorney for the defendant Ac- cordingly, sentence was pronounced as scheduled last night.
 Asked if he had anything to say 1 before sentence was passed, the de | fendant replied in the negative. MT ! Maruuam, however. made q short | talk. He reviewed a portion of the l case and the matter of the proper 1 ty on Skoogey Gulch which is in volved and also the matter of being l denied a new trial. The jury in the case against Goyette, who was charg- 1 ed with assault with intent to kill, l brought in a verdict of guilty Of assault with a dangerous weapon, the court having instructed the jury men that they might do so, as is provided for by law, but it was by reason of this instruction that At tornev Marquam contended that a new trial should be granted the de 1 fendant, stating that the jury would most certainly have found the de fendant not guilty at the time Of the trial had it not been for the in struction
 He advanced this legal theory again last night in making his talk i to the court before sentence was passed. In addition he made plea for fine or jail sentence on the ground that the property rights Of the defendant in connection with the prosecuting witnesses in the case against him would suffer, were he sentenced to serve a term in prison | Outside.
 District Attorney Roth stated, in reply to the courts question, that he had nothing to say regarding sentence. Judge Bunnell then or dered Goyette to stand up. He had just started to talk after the de fendant had arisen to his feet when the band on the street started to play, remarking at this juncture: T wish that band would stop; l don't like to sentence man when band | is playing" Both sentence and mu- sic, however, continued.
 The court said that he realized the positions of both himself and the defendant in the matter of the | sentence He also said that he realized the defendants position in regard to his property rights. He pointed out the fact, however, that the defendant should also have thought of his property rights when he did the shooting on Skoogey Gulch He further stated that he
 believes that Goyette now has a realization of the trouble in which he became involved, saying that hr did not believe that the defendant
 would again act as harshly as he did in the matter. He also said that Il was true that the people with whom Goyette was involved did not bear the best kind of reputation in the community, but that by being with them Goyette had made himself one of them.
 Some advice concerning his con
 duet in prison was also extended to
 the defendant by Judge Bunnell. He
 said that by good behavior the de
 fendant could get out of prison when he had served third of his time
 and advised him to work to the end
 that he might do so.
 Personally l would do anything