State v. Norman
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the First district court, Cache county. C. H. Hart, Judge. Louis H. Norman was convicted of adultery, and appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Bartch, J.:
The defendant was prosecuted for and convicted of the crime of adultery. Upon being sentenced to the penitentiary for one year, he appealed to this court.
Counsel for the appellant contend that, at the time the act was charged to have been committed, there was no law in íorce in this state which made adultery a public offense. They argue that the act of the territorial legislature respecting polygamy, adultery, and other «kindred offenses, approved February 4, 1892 (Sess. Laws 1892, p. o) was never a valid law of the territory of Utah, and, except as to polygamy, never became…
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