Legal Opinion

People v. Hill

Utah Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1884PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeals from the third district court. The people appealed from the judgment sustaining a demurrer to the indictment; the defendant appealed from an order resubmitting the cause to the grand jury which should be next impaneled after the judgment on the demurrer, and from an order holding the defendant in custody to abide the action of such grand jury.

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Appeals from the third district court. The people appealed from the judgment sustaining a demurrer to the indictment; the defendant appealed from an order resubmitting the cause to the grand jury which should be next impaneled after the judgment on the demurrer, and from an order holding the defendant in custody to abide the action of such grand jury. Subsequent to the finding of the indictment, and prior to the judgment on the demurrer being entered, a grand jury impaneled for the third district had convened and been discharged. The opinion states the other facts. This is an appeal by the…

1Opinion of the Court

EMERSON, J.:

The defendant was arraigned in the third district court upon an indictment for embezzlement, the charging part of which is as follows: “The said Alexander S. Hill, on the eighth day of March, A. D. 1883, at the county of Salt Lake, in said territory of Utah, having been intrusted as bailee by one Lucy J. Hill with two certificates of deposit of money in the Deseret National Bank, to wit, one for the sum of five thousand dollars and the other for the snm of four thousand dollars, both payable to the order of, and both being the property of, said Lucy J. Hill, did collect and…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Crocker v. CraneNew York Supreme Court · 1839
  2. People v. KingCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
  3. People v. FeilenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1881
  4. People v. PoggiCalifornia Supreme Court · 1862
  5. People v. Ah OwnCalifornia Supreme Court · 1870

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Forry v. Gulf Oil Corp.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
  2. Keys v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
  3. People v. BradburyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1909
  4. State v. LongstrethNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1909
  5. State v. BrownMontana Supreme Court · 1909

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