8 Utah 378 | Utah | 1893
The defendant was indicted for the crime of attempting to pass counterfeit coin of the United States, found guilty by a jury, and sentenced by the court to imprisonment in the penitentiary for three years, and to pay a fine of $100. The indictment being read and the plea stated, the prosecuting attorney, without a statement of the substance of the evidence he expected to offer, or the facts1 that he expected the testimony would tend to prove, offered evidence to the jury, to the introduction of which, without such statement, counsel for theglefendant objected and excepted. The defendant now assigns the overruling of the objection, and the admission of the evidence with