Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-02 | Page 11 | Chez Reprimands County Attorneys

CHEZ REPRIMANDS COUNTY ATTORNEYS Ordered to Enforce Prod Produce ce License Law I Attorney G- G General Joseph Chez Monday rebuked prosecutors who arbitrarily ar ar- l refuse to bring requested prosecution following disclosures the state department or of agriculture is having di difficulty in enforcing the produce dealers dealers' license law David F. F Smith agricultural commissioner com com- missioner complained his department is getting getling little or no in some counties after it ds violators citing an instance in which one county attorney said he did not want the state to brin bring any more such cases This prosecutor Mr Smith said id objected to Issuing complaints until untila a c case e pending in Third district court in which constitutionality of the law Is questioned is settled flIt It Is plainly the duty of the department de- de to apprehend violators or of orthe the law and the duty ot of the county attorney to begin prosecution Mr Chez said in an opinion pointing out it was not in the province of a prosecutor to to decIde constitutionality constitutional constitutional- ity of a a law