State v. Baillargeron

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

By complaint filed in a justice of the peace court of Carbon county, it was charged that the defendant Oscar Baillargeron, on or about November 15, 1951, at Rockvale in said county committed the crime of unlawfully driving a truck with an overload on U. S. Highways No. 310 and 12, being a misdemeanor.

The defendant entered a plea of not guilty, — was tried by a jury in said justice of the peace court, — convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $50. The defendant thereupon took a timely appeal to the district court of Carbon county where the ease was tried de novo before…