001

Territory of Utah. Beaver County S.S.
In the District Court for the Second
Judical District of Utah Territory
July Term. A.D. 1875

The People of the United States
In the Territory of Utah.
vs.
John D. Lee, Indicted with
William H. Dame, Isaac C. Haight
John M. Higby, George Adair, Junior,
Elliott Wilden, Samuel Jukes
Phillip K. Smith and William C. Stewart.

Plea to Indictment.

And the said John D. Lee in his
own proper person comes into Court here
and having heard the said indictment read
saith, that he ought not to answer, or to be
tried upon the said Indictment for the
reason that the persons acting as a Grand
Jury by whom the said Indictment was
found, were not at the time of finding
the said Indictment or at any
other time a legal Grand Jury becasue
he says, that heretofore "to wit" on
the Eleventh day of August A.D. 1874,
the Hon. Jacob S. Boreman Judge
of the District Court for