Rejoinder of John D. Lee to the replication of the said people to the third plea in abatement filed by said defendant

Territory of Utah County of Beaver SS

In the District Court of the Second Judicial District of Utah Territory. In and for Beaver County

The People of the United States In the Territory of Utah vs. John D. Lee. et al.

Rejoinder of said John D. Lee to the replication of the said People to the third plea of Defendant John D. Lee, in Abatement.

And the said John D. Lee says: That the said defendant ought not to be required to answer to or be tried on the said indictment by reason of the matter in said replication stated because he says that said indictment was not presented by a Grand Jury to this Court on the 24th day of September A.D. 1874. or at any other time. That no Record of the presentation of the said intectment to this Court exists And this the Defendant prays may be enquired of by the Court. And the said People doth the like.

Spicer, Hoge, Bishop, Bates and Southerland and McFarland Attys for Defts

District Court 2nd Jud. Dist. Utah Territory Beaver County

The People &c vs John D. Lee et al

Rejoinder of John D. Lee to the Replication of the said People, to the third plea in abatement filed by said defendant.

Filed July 22, 1875, James R. Wilkins Clerk

Spicer, Hoge, Bishop Bates, Southerland & McFarland Attys for Deft's.