State v. Odekirk

Defendant was convicted of tbe crime of adultery. After a denial of his motion for a new trial be appeals. He complains that tbe evidence was insufficient to justify the verdict of tbe jury, and that tbe verdict was contrary to law.

The evidence upon which a conviction was based was wholly circumstantial. In substance, it tends to show that on February 8, 1919, the date upon which the alleged offense was charged in the information as having been committed, the defendant was a married man residing at the town of Duchesne, Duchesne county, Utah, where he had been engaged in the business of…