State v. Geurts

CROCKETT, Justice.

Defendant, Theodore I. Geurts, appeals from a jury verdict finding him guilty of malfeasance in office and a judgment entered removing him from his office as a commissioner of Salt Lake City, under our statute providing for removal of public officials on that ground.1

He had been elected to a four-year term in that office in the regular city election in 1957, and took office in January of 1958. In July, 1959, the Salt Lake County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging him with the crime of neglect and misconduct in office in connection with six separate transactions. In…