People v. O'loughlin
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe second district court. The territorial criminal practice act of 1878, upon the subject of challenges to jurors, reads as-follows: “ Sec. 225. When several defendants are tried together, they can not sever their challenges, but must join therein.” “ Sec. 238. If the offense charged is punishable with death or imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, the defendant is entitled to ten and the territory to five peremptory challenges.
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Appeal from tbe second district court. The territorial criminal practice act of 1878, upon the subject of challenges to jurors, reads as-follows: “ Sec. 225. When several defendants are tried together, they can not sever their challenges, but must join therein.” “ Sec. 238. If the offense charged is punishable with death or imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, the defendant is entitled to ten and the territory to five peremptory challenges. On a trial for any other offense the defendant is entitled to five and the territory to three peremptory challenges.” Riot is punishable by fine or…
1Opinion of the Court
TwiSS, J.:
The indictment in this case charges the defendants, and divers other persons, whose names are unknown to the grand jurors, to the number of about two hundred and fifty, of the crime of riot on the first day of February, 1881, at the county of Washington, in the territory of Utah; that by the use of force and violence, and by threats to then and there use force and violence, accompanied by the immediate power of execution, and acting together without authority of law, did then and there feloniously disturb the public peace, etc., “ and did take unlawful and forcible possession of the…
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