Show i Sheriff jives Gives Summary Of 63 Although Its It's been only a year this month since Ken neth Hammon took the reins as sheriff of Davis County its it's been the busiest year in the history of that office in Davis County AS IS TilE TIIE custom at the end of each year a summary I I or of the activities of the sherI sher- sher t I ms m's department and jail jaU is made and submitted to the county commissioners Accord ing to this years year's report there i 1 was more of Just about everything every every- thin thing listed During the year 1963 1903 there i w we e r persons committed I to the county jail fail Of these were charged with felonies of which were cleared and th that t are still under gatlon gation Also 14 of these prisoners pris pris- were sent to the state penitentiary OF 01 TilE TIIE committed approximately 75 per cent were cleared The report shows that 20 persons were committed to the State Mental 10 hospital there were 33 cases Investigated including family fights missing persons person accidental acci dental and suicides 1 there were also ten traffic fatalities reported during during dur- dur ing th the year And the service of civil papers by the department depart depart- ment reached a whopping TilE TIIE FOLLOWING figures is a list of the offenses charged against prisoners of the county jail and Investigated ed cd by the sheriffs sheriff's office during duro dur ing the past year Murder and non negligent mans laugh t o e r 2 forcible rape 13 r robbery 7 burglary 18 larce larceny n y thefts not including auto thefts 23 auto thefts 1 Ii assaults 22 forgery and coun 4 embezzlement and fraud 4 possessing stolen property I 1 sex of offenses lenses 7 drunken driving public intoxication 89 disorder 1 y conduct persons 19 vagrancy cy 10 ked beaked for suspicion 3 driving on revocation 63 bad check ch ck charges 39 con tempt of court 37 failure to le provide 12 contributing to the delinquency of a minor 9 traffic violations 58 escapee this was before the move was made into the new jail that was completed last summer 2 parole violation 4 mater lal ial witnesses 2 and nd kidnapping kidnap kidnap- ping 1 hi bf 1 |