Show Defendant Defendant Loses Right in Southern Utah Case CaseI I r should like to know 0 if It It would be proper for a Justice of the peace to go out of ot his precinct pre ire to finish the trial of a criminal case This was the question submitted the attorney general by bythe the county attorney of Washington county the tile i irea rea reason on for the query being that the theu I u tice of the peace in iii St. St George Geurge I precinct and the county attorney ney atto ney I went to the place outside of ot the precinct where here the tile witnesses re resided resided re- re sided owing to the illness of ot the wife of ot one of the tile witnesses and heard his testimony The d defendant was found guilty and he now objects that the justice did not have the tile right to leave his precinct to hear the case in that there was a Justice hi in the town where the stats states witness resl resided Attorney General Cluff replied saying that the Justice did not have the right to act as he did as the compiled laws of 1917 gives of the peace Jurisdiction ill lii 12 criminal cases cases over all parts pa-Is of ot the county that is that an of offense offense of- of Tense may be committed in an any precinct in a and the of offender offender of- of fender tender be taken to any precinct precinct precinct pre pre- that the officers may desire but it does not mean that a Justice may go outside his precinct to try a a. case In the case at Issue however how how- ever er the attorney general holds that the defendant having consented consented con con- sentell to go outside cannot now s successfully object |