Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — DECIDES WAR IS OVER [ARTICLE]

DECIDES WAR IS OVER

KENTUCKY JUDGE CITES WILSON'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS. * Renders Decision That the "Flve-Mlle Zone" Rule Is Not in Effect. Louisville, Ky.. April line with an Informal ’statement from the bench on March 4, Feders! Judge Walter Evans handed down a decision finding that the war In Europe leaallv is at an end and that a plea for a new trial on conviction of vlolattaf war-time military regulations after the armistice was signed hns standing In court. Judge Evans based his decision ufstn an address by President Wilson before both houses of congress in Joint session November 11. 1918. In which he said, referring to the defeat of Germany, "the war thus comes to in end." The preKident. said the court, had authority to make the pronouncement under that section of the Constitution which provides that he may from time to time go before congress and give information as to the state of the Union. The opinion was rendered in the case of Harry Hicks, a resident of Louisville, charged with conducting a disorderly house In December within five miles of Camp Zachary Taylor. His counsel pleaded that Hie armistice was signed before the alleged offense was committed and that therefore the military five-mlle regulation no longer was Jn effect. Judge Evans sustained the contention and ordered a new trial for the defendant. K