Series 17463

DESCRIPTION: Criminal case alphabetic indexes created by the Court, to record the names of the parties involved in criminal actions and provide assigned case numbers, facilitate clerical management of and access to the case files. The indexes contain defendant's name, register of action page number, and case file number. Weber County was in the Third District Court from January 21, 1859-January 19, 1880; First District Court from February 20, 1880-March 9, 1892; Fourth District Court from March 10, 1892-January 5, 1896 and Second District Court from January 6, 1896-[ongoing]. Weber County retained their indexes as they transferred from district to district.

ARRANGEMENT: This series is arrange alphabetically by first letter of defendant surname.

RELATED RECORDS: Series 1521, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASE FILES, 1850-1895[ongoing], contains the entire case file listed in these indexes. Series 6954, CRIMINAL CASE FILES, 1896-[ongoing], contains the entire case file listed in these indexes. Series 17825 , WEBER COUNTY CIVIL AND CRIMINAL REGISTERS OF ACTIONS, 1878-1896, contains a listing of actions taken in each case. Series 17462, CRIMINAL REGISTERS OF ACTIONS, 1880-1892, contains a listing of actions taken in each case.

PROCESSING NOTE: Court indexes were first scheduled in 1968 as permanent records. This series was archivally processed by David Clark in June 2000.

PREFERRED CITATION: Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

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