Las Vegas Daily Gazette

The supreme court adjourned Friday for the term.

It is understood that it will not meet again until January, 1884.

Hereafter all papers to be used before the court must be printed. Several important decisions have been rendered, and opinions filed, but most of the cases have been divided among the judges, opinions to be filed during vacation.

All opinions filed before the third of February will appear in second volume of New Mexico Reports, now nearly ready for the press. The Capital case from Colfax—Romero's, and the one from Albuquerque, Yarberry's—were affirmed. The other criminal case from Colfax, fraudulently obtaining a letter from the postoffice, containing money, was reversed, and the perjury case from Santa Fe county was also reversed. In the civil case of Staab Bros. vs Jaramillo, tried in Las Vegas by General Barnes and Colonel Thornton, a new trial has been granted.

This case has been twice tried already, once in Albuquerque and once in Las Vegas. The suit is brought by Staab & Bro., upon a promissory note of some $2000. Jaramillo swears he never signed the note, and twice the jury by a verdict in his favor have sustained him. The case was not of course, heard in the Supreme Court on its merits and is now sent back for technical errors occurring at the trial. As both parties are rich and respectable and as there is perjury or forgery and a possible state prison in this case, the other trial will be looked forward to with great interest. The case of Mohr & Mohr vs. Mr. Luna involving $10,000 or $12,000 and perjury is taken by Bristol. John L. Chisum's $17,000 suit and the 300,000 land grant case and mining suit appealed from Grant county are taken by Mr. Chief Justice. Judge Bell is a vigorous worker and has rendered the most opinions during the term. He has also taken a number of cases home with him to work at during vacation. It may not be generally known, but it is a fact that these three judges are among the hardest worked and hardworking men in the profession. That they are self-poised, honorable, straight men, no one can question—free from bad habits and above corrupting influences. Friday night John H. Knaebel, the attorney for Yarberry, applied to Chief Justice Axtell for a writ of habeas corpus for his client. This is the first step in a move to carry this case before the supreme court at Washington. The judge has taken the petition under advisement. Knowing the motive which inspires the application, it is quite probable he will refuse the writ. If he does, Yarberry will expiate his deeds of blood upon the gallows on Friday 9th of next month. The impression upon the minds of the citizens of Santa Fe is that the term of the supreme court just closed was one of the most satisfactory ever held in the territory.