State v. Shockley
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Salt Lake County; C. W. Morse, Judge. James Sbocldey was convicted of murder, and appeals. STATEMENT OE EACTS. Tbe defendant was convicted of tbe crime of murder in tbe ■first degree for tbe killing of one Amasa L. Gleason, and was sentenced to be executed.
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Appeal from District Court, Salt Lake County; C. W. Morse, Judge. James Sbocldey was convicted of murder, and appeals. STATEMENT OE EACTS. Tbe defendant was convicted of tbe crime of murder in tbe ■first degree for tbe killing of one Amasa L. Gleason, and was sentenced to be executed. Defendant is tbe only living eyewitness to tbe tragedy, and tbe facts and circumstances leading up to and surrounding the commission of tbe crime, as testified to by himself, are as follows: On January 6, 1904, be went tó tbe corner of Thirteenth and Second South streets, Salt Lake City, Utah, for tbe purpose of…
1Opinion of the Court
McCARTY, J.,
After stating tbe facts, delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Appellant contends that tbe judge of tbe city court bad no jurisdiction to act as a committing magistrate, and therefore tbe district court was without jurisdiction to try tbe case. The constitutional and statutory provisions bearing upon tbis question are as follows: Section 1, article 8, Constitution provides that:
“The judicial power of tbe State shall be vested in tbe Senate sitting as a court of impeachment in. a Supreme Court, in district courts, in justices of tbe peace and in such other courts inferior to tbe…
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