Shoemaker v. State

WOLFE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court granting the motion of the respondents to expunge from the records of the court certain portions of a report made by a Utah County grand jury.

In August of 1951 a grand jury was drawn and impaneled for Utah County. In its charge to the jurors, the court directed them to report any “undesirable or questionable” conditions worthy of special comment which they might find in the course of their investigation, even though no indictment may be found, in order that the “public of this County may be informed as to the condition of…