The Social Welfare Forum (Volume 32); Official Proceedings [Of The] Annual Meeting (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1905 Excerpt: ... erable size, containing a city of some importanc so-called, the people have a prejudice against, it is not fair play and it is not fair play very times managed and controlled by brow-beatin man who objects to it is usually, Mr. Chain As a matter of fact, with five or six years' with convicted people, perhaps having interv dred, we will say, who have been convicted know of any case in which the person conv: except one. There was one case of the coi rently insane person. The crime had been I girl, and it was charged that she was under The girl was not of good family, her motht to the age of her birth, and, as a matter o: weeks over sixteen at the time. The difficu tration of the criminal law usually is the esc Judge Lindsey, Denver.--There is on J Hallam's which I think is a very imports rather bemoaned the fact that the grand jul abolished in some of the states. I have haJ our own state along that line. The grand I tically abolished in Colorado, and the di. power to file informations. Under our law sively in the district attorney. He can file and when he files it he can dismiss it, and no I thing to say except that one man. I may bel district attorneys. I have been through somq in Colorado, and four or five years ago I reme where girls were found in wine-rooms and brc tried to get the proprietors brought in they wen the result was they could not be prosecuted. WH this tremendous power in the hands of one man not divide this power, so that any citizen or any rn? bar, under some restriction or supervision of the have the right to file information for the prosecu where the district attorney fails in his duty? Last introduced a bill in the legislature providing that officers appointed by the court should have-the right t plaints against men and women who were vi...