Uintah Basin Standard | 1962-05-17 | Page 6 | Jail Sentence on 2 Counts Given, Term Starts Today

Jail sentence on 2 counts term starts today Donald Gene Kazda will be committed to the Point of the Mountain prison states Duchesne County George E. to start serving two sentences meted out Monday at JUDGE JOSEPH of the Fourth sentenced to a term of from one to ten years on the grand charge a car in Roosevelt after jail there May and a term not to exceed five years for damaging public property These sentences are to run The defendant had plead guilty to these felony charges before Judge and requested immediate Earlier Monday he had waived preliminary hearing in the Duchesne Justice before Fred justice of the on these two felony so the district court could hear the case the same Kazda was represented in the court proceedings by court-appointed James R. Roosevelt KAZDA HAD been brought from the Salt Lake County Jail to Duchesne Monday toj appear in He was turned to the Salt Lake County Jail late Monday pending signing of the commitment the prison by Judge Joseph Duchesne County may bring an habitual criminal charge against Sheriff Marett said only three felony convictions were required to do Conviction under the habitual criminal law in Utah carries a 15 year to life the sheriff Norma Rae mother of an eight-month-old charged with armed robbery in the Elden Brady was sentenced five years to life in the state The execution of the sentence was provided she spend 90 days in the county and not violate conditions of an probationary period to be handled by auth- in Dennis brother of Donald Gene received a. five-year-to-life sentence April at in connection with his part in tho Bridgeland He was to the state the next Dennis Kazda had entered a plea of guilty in the Brady Dennis was charged with armed robbery and assault with intent to commit and the young was charged with armed SHERIFF MARETT Kazda would not be tried in tills county on a forgery sin co forged bank money order which Kazda cashed May 4 1 was cashed in Wasatch The forged si-nature on this bank money order was made payable to a Vernal physician by and Gene D. Kazda had taken the money order from the Kuhn's which he had stolen from near their home May