South Salt Lake v. Burton

Defendant was convicted of driving a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license, by a jury sitting in the Justice of the Peace Court of South Salt Lake. She was sentenced to serve 90 days in the Salt Lake County jail and to pay a fine of $299, the jail sentence to be suspended upon payment of the fine. Defendant appealed to the district court and was provided a trial de novo. 1 After this trial, the court clerk recorded in a minute entry: “The court thereupon finds in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant and orders the previously imposed sentence reinstated.”

The record does…