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Show I Who Will Bear Court Cost to Be; Decided The question of whether the state or the county shall bear the burden of costs In certain cases tried In the courts is to bo determined by an opinion opin-ion which the attorney general has been asked to prepare for Joseph Rirle of Ogden, state auditor. Auditor Rirle asks information regarding re-garding prosecutions under sections of the compiled laws of 1917, providing that the statei a to pay the entire expense ex-pense of jurors and witnesses. He states that under supreme court decisions de-cisions recorded in Utah reports, volume vol-ume 43, page 447 and volume 46, page 249, he believes that the character of the trials referred to should properly bo classed as civil in' proceedure, in which case the costs would be borne by the counties in which they originated. origin-ated. , Hundreds of dollars, said Auditor Rirle, may be saved the state in the 1 event that this interpretation of the statutes is susained. oo |