Legal Opinion
State v. Jones
Utah Supreme Court
Decided November 18, 1965No. 10418PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CROCKETT, Justice.
This action was brought to remove David P. Jones, incumbent Salt Lake County Auditor, from that office under the provision of Sec. 77-7-1, U.C.A.1953:
All officers not liable to impeachment shall be subject to removal for high crimes, misdemeanors or malfeasance in office as in this chapter provided.
The defendant had served a term as Salt Lake County Auditor, 1950 to 1954; and after a term out of office, was again elected in 1958 and took office in January, 1959. In 1962 he was re-elected to another four-year term. In the spring of 1965 he was charged in the Federal Court…
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- Stickle v. Union Pacific R. Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1952
- State v. WelshSupreme Court of Iowa · 1899
- Heathman v. GilesUtah Supreme Court · 1962
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