The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-02-21
STANDROD BANK NEWS

Inere are SIX Glasses OF cIdImS
that may be filed against the Stand
rod bank for losses sustained. De-
positors are in class three and each
Idepositor wishing to put in a claim
should go or send to the bank for a
claim blank and fill 1t in and make
oath to it before a notary. This may
be done at any time before the first
day of June, 1924. If the depositor
has paid protest fees that may be in
cluded in his claim.
If any claimants do not file their
claims within the ninety day limit,
they are barred from making any
claim thereafter, and their portion
of any moneys that may be gathered
for distribution will be placed in the
apportionment to the credit of the
others.
During the present week there has
been settled the matter of a change
of venue, (place where a trial is
heidi for the case of the state
against w. F. Bergman. Every per-
son accused of crime is entitled to
trial before a court and jury and in
surroundings that are free from
feeling and prejudice and anger.
That is provided for In our constitu-
tion and is one of the points of diff
ference between our country and the
trying of accused persons In the old
world, Russia, for example, where
any angry and revengeful magistrate
is permitted to sit In Judgment
against a rival or even a person
whom he has been prosecuting and
bounding with trickery to secure his
downfall He may hear the testi-
mony Of INSCRIPTIONS enemies Of
the accused and without hearing any !,
explanation or defense, he may con-
denim him to the dark cell or to be
shot at sunrise, to be packed in pull
verified ice or almost anything his
evil nature may suggest. America
goes to the other extreme and
guarantees that the accused, however
certain his guilt may appear, shall
have every opportunity to be heard,
his witnesses be heard and their
testimony considered, and that it
shall be done in an atmosphere that
is free from any exhibition of ex-
element or prejudice, by court and
jury, who are calm and dispassionate
and whose wish for truth and justice
rises above any and all other con-
The public prosecutor
Is supposed to share in that wish and
not to become ambitious to secure
from the same impulse
that causes one engaged in game
to seek to win the game. If the
accused is unable to employ counsel,
The state employs both prosecutor
and defending attorney so that both
sides may be fully represented. 1t I
s not considered proper for friends {
Or opponents Of the accused to enter 8
he court room during the trial and I
make any exhibition of their friend
hip or their enmity in the presence 7
# court and jury, and any violation T
II disregard of these things may be l.
considered sufficient reason for stop {
ling a trial and commencing all over
gain, with new court and jury or n
( the defendant is convicted and ap- :
'eals his case and can show to the
higher court that his trial was con-
ucted in disregard of this kind of
n environment, or that a witness
vas permitted to give testimony that
night influence the jury without
ueh testimony having any direct
earring on the case at bar, that
,ould be proper reason for cancell- G
ng the whole proceedings and
ranting a new trial. B
It is the history of human en- :
eavor that public prosecutors get so :
hey give attention only to showing
he guilt or probable guilt of the &C
used and leave it to the defense to
xplain or refute anything that sug-
ests guilt. 1t costs more money to
" case, where all witnesses and
xhibits have to be taken to some
istant court, but mere matters OF
loney and expense are not consid-
red comparable to securing justice,
lerefore trials may become expen-
We and extravagant and yet be con-
dered justified. In the Bergman
Use the accused asks to be tried in
court outside of his own county,
I'd that was allowed. The local dis
ict judge, being a friend and
sighbor of the accused, is not re-
Tired to pass judgment even upon
le question of whether a change of
,nue shall be granted or not. Judge
aum was called in from Bannock
'unty to decide that and each side
as permitted to present its case.