AGENCY: District Court (Fourth District)
SERIES: 1629
TITLE: Criminal case files
DATES: 1889-1895.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by case number.
DESCRIPTION: These case files include the original complaint, summons, information, indictment, or arrest warrant together with all legal papers subsequently filed in connection with the court proceeding through disposition or dismissal. The Fourth District Court was created in 1892 from the Northern Division of the First District Court. The far flung First District Court was divided into two geographic divisions (northern and southern) from 1880-1892. The Northern Division included Box Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, and Weber counties. Case files document the legal process and the administration of justice in the newly created Fourth Judicial District as well as its predecessor, the Northern 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 with authority to weed.
Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
APPRAISAL
Historical Legal
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.