Defendant's jury instructions (given)

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Given.

If the Jury do not find from the evidence that the defendant killed one or more persons described in the indictment; nor that he was present, and aided and abetted the killing of one or more of such persons, he can not be convicted, unless the Jury find that he committed such acts as to make him an accessory before the fact of such homicide.

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Given.

That to convict the defendant of murder, by reason of a killing of one or more of the persons described in the indictment, by the hand of another, the Jury must find from the evidence that the defendent, by words or acts, at or before the fact of such killing, countenanced, advised, or consented to the same.

No. 31.

In the 2nd Dist. Court, Utah Territory

The People Etc. vs. John D. Lee, et al

Defendant's Instructions

Filed August 7th, 1875. James R. Wilkins Clerk.