AGENCY: District Court (First District)
SERIES: 1521
TITLE: Southern division criminal case files
DATES: i 1875-1895.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical.
DESCRIPTION: An original indictment or arrest warrant which initiates a legal action together with all legal papers subsequently filed in connection with the criminal proceeding through disposition or dismissal of the case make up these case files. Although the far flung First District Court was divided into two geographic divisions (northern and southern), only criminal files from the Southern Division are included in this series. The Southern Division, which generally sat at Provo in Utah County, encompassed Carbon, Emery, Grand, Juab, Millard, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Uintah, Utah, and Wasatch counties. Case files document the legal process and the administration of justice in the southern division of the First Judicial District. Criminal cases include both felonies and misdemeanors. Recurrent criminal offenses may include robbery, burglary, theft, riot, malicious destruction of property, extortion, distribution of unlawful substances, contempt, treason, desertion, assault, murder, etc.
RETENTION
DISPOSITION
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
These records are in Archives' permanent custody.
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently after microfilming.
Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
APPRAISAL
Historical
This disposition is based on the 1993 records retention policy of the Utah Judicial Council (in UCA, Utah Court Rules Annotated, Appendix F), which has remained unchanged since the 1980 issue of the state Records Retention Schedule (Utah State Archives and Records Service, Department of Finance 1980, page 1). The territorial case files provide documentation about individuals, legal procedure, court history and functions. The permanent disposition of the case files is based on their historical research value.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Public. UCA 63G-2-301 (1) (f) provides that judicial records are public unless restricted by the rules of criminal or civil procedure.