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Show Jury Trial Ends VJith Jail for Defendant A jury trial was held Thursday, June 3, in 7th Judicial District Court in the case of the State of Utah vs. Paul Koyd Hurlburt with Judge Edward Sheya presiding. presid-ing. The defendent was charged with theft by reason of the receipt, retention or disposal of mechanical tools belonging to another. The tools, according to the owner, were valued at $100. The evidence indicated that Hurlburt pawned the tools for the sum of $20. It was claimed by the state that the defendent knew or had probable cause to believe that the tools had been stolen at the time he pawned them. ' The owner, D. H. Shields, stated that he missed them about the middle of December. The evidence showed that the tools were at a location in town frequented by Hurlburt and that1 he had seen them a number of times during the 2'A month period since they were discovered missing by the owner. Hurlburt took the witness 4 stand and testified, in substance, sub-stance, that he had seen these ' tools on a number of occasions at the place he frequented and ' had no reason to believe they -were stolen. He assumed that they belonged to the person in whose home he had seen them on those occasions; that one of the residents of the home had asked him to pawn them because of the latter's need for money. It was brought out in evidence that Hurlburt told the officers, when asked where he had obtained the tools, that he woke up one morning and' found them in the room. He stated that this was a falsehood, but the same was perpetrated in order not to involve another person, who was already in difficulty with the law. After hearingthe instructions of Judge Sheya and arguments of counsel, the jury deliberated delibera-ted just over an hour and returned a verdict of guilty to theft as charged in the Information. The defendent waived time : in which to have sentence pronounced and the court sentenced him to serve 60 days in the Grand County jail, and to pay a fine of $200. The court explained that the maximum penalty for this offense was 6 months in jail, and a fine of $299. The balance of the maximum jail term and $99 of the maximum fine were suspended sus-pended on condition that the defendent serve the 60 days and pay a fine of $200 . |