Show SANPETE COUNTY COURT over in sanpete county where the district court is in session the two ann cipal criminal cases on the calendar were the archie burns murder case and the alex justesen perjury case in the former case burns was arraigned and pleaded not gu ity and the hearing went over till the next term of court justensen was tried and convicted the jury returning i verdict on the first ballot district attorney F E woods was assisted m the prosecution by coun ty attorney lewis larsen while jus was defended by jacob johnson and G A iverson the beginning of the suit was caused through some mining deals which first resulted in the famous case of jacob johnson vs niels peter nielson john son purchased some notes made by niel sen to alex justensen for mining prop erty arni to 3 and it is claimed that johnson bought them for 60 during the hearing of this case at the last term of court and which perjury proceedings from which this case just settled is the outgrowth was to the effect that james larsen swore niels P nielsen had offered larsen if he would testify that he had heard alex justensen say that he had agreed to tear up those notes after this certain mining deal vas closed james larsen testified to this under oath and shortly afterward pleaded gu ity to perjury claiming the perjury was con acted by justensen justensen was given the statutory time to prepare for a new trial |