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Territory of Utah
County of Beaver
SS

In the District Court of the
Second Judicial District of Utah
Territory. In and for Beaver County

The People of the United States
In the Territory of Utah
vs.
John D. Lee. et al.

Rejoinder of said John D. Lee to the
replication of the said People to the third plea
of Defendant John D. Lee, in Abatement.

And the said John D. Lee says:
That the said defendant ought not to be required to answer
to or be tried on the said indictment by reason of the matter
in said replication stated because he says that said indictment
was not presented by a Grand Jury to this Court on the 24th day
of September A.D. 1874. or at any other time. That no Record
of the presentation of the said intectment to this Court exists
And this the Defendant prays may be enquired of by the Court.
And the said People doth the like.

Spicer, Hoge, Bishop, Bates and
Southerland and McFarland
Attys for Defts