Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — Another Mockery of Justice. [ARTICLE]

Another Mockery of Justice.

A LETTER ifrttOM PROSECUTOR WALKER. Editor Republican: —l have just read your able article on the inadequacy of the punishment inflicted in the Stitz case. Your comments meet my unqualified approval, and ought to meet with the approval of all who feel an interest in a correct administration of the criminal law. One year’s imprisonment for arsoD, is, as you say, a solemn mockery. In the case of the State vs Luke Biesett, for rape on a little girl, 10 years old, which was tried here a year ago, and the defendant found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison for five ye&.'s, Bissett has succeeded in getting the Judgment reversed, iu the Supreme Court, upon the merest quibble, the flimsiest pretext: and I am now compelled to wade through another laborious trial. The decision is a farce and a humbug. Yours very truly, M. H. Walker. A