State v. Harris
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Fifth District, Juab County; D. H. Morris, Judge. Alice Harris, Eugene Harris, and others were indicted for murder and Eugene Harris was convicted of murder in the second degree. The others were acquitted, and Eugene Harris appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeber, J.
By information Alice Harris, Leland Harris, Eugene Harris, and Edward L. Tackman were jointly charged with murder in the first degree, committed in Juab County on July 22, 1919, by shooting and killing Jesse H. Cone. During the trial, and before it rested, the state dismissed the case against Tackman, who then became a witness for the prosecution. Alice and Leland Harris were acquitted. Eugene Harris, the other defendant, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
In the summer of 1917 Mrs. Alice Harris…
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