AGENCY: District Court (Second District : Weber County)

SERIES: 17463
TITLE: Criminal case indexes
DATES: 1879-1947.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by first letter of defendant surname

DESCRIPTION: This series consists of criminal case alphabetic indexes created by the Court, to record the names of the parties involved in criminal actions and provide assigned case numbers, facilitate clerical management of and access to the case files. The index contains defendant's name, register of action page number, and case file number. Weber County was in the Third District Court from January 21, 1859-January 19, 1880; First District Court from February 20, 1880-March 9, 1892; Fourth District Court from March 10, 1892-January 5, 1896 and Second District Court from January 6, 1896-[ongoing]. Weber County retained their indexes as they transferred from district to district.

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

Administrative 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 Services, Department of Finance, 1980, page 1). The indexes have historical, administrative, and legal value and facilitate access to the permanent criminal case files which provide documentation about individuals, legal procedure, court history and functions, and other topics useful to legal researchers and historians.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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