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as a charge to the holders of stock as a part of its cost. We think it was proper for the court to leave him where he had placed himself in the transaction, and estop him from charging such loans to defendant as a part of the cost of the stock. The judgment and order appealed from should. be affirmed, with costs to defendant.

ZANE, C. J., and BOREMAN, J., concurred.

UNITED STATES, RESPONDENT, v. HORACE S. EL-
DREDGE, AND ANOTHER, APPELLANTS.

CRIMINAL LAW.-PLEADING. UNLAWFUL COHABITATION.-Complaint before Commissioner of Supreme Court against defendant for unlawful cohabitation need not allege that defendant is a male person.

SUIT ON BOND.-COMPLAINT BEFORE COMMISSIONER. Complaint before Commissioner of Supreme Court made upon information and belief is sufficient, and can be offered in evidence in suit upon bond given before such Commissioner by defendant.

ID. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.- Defendant who waives prelimin-
ary examination waives defects in complaint upon which he was
arrested, and sureties on his bond cannot make such objection
when sued on bond.

ID.--BOND OF DEFENDANT.-Recognizance of defendant is sufficient
as to description of the offence if it describes the offense in the
language of the statute, when sureties are sued on bond.
ID.-BOND OF DEFENDANT.--VARIANCE. In suit on forfeited recogni-
zance of defendant, it is not a material variance that bond de-
scribed in the complaint bears no file mark and the one offered in
evidence has filing marked upon it.

ID. POWER OF COMMISSIONER TO TAKE BOND.--Commissioner of
Supreme Court, under 18 Stat., 255, has authority to take recog-
nizance of defendant held to answer to charge of unlawful co-
habitation.

FORFEITURE OF BAIL.--Under Laws of Utah, 1878, section 409, after forfeiture of bail, the defendant or sureties upon bond may appear, and if the neglect of defendant is satisfactorly excused, the forfeiture may be discharged, and if sureties do not avail themselves of this privilege, they waive all irregularities of which they could have taken advantage under it.

CRIMINAL LAW. UNLAWFUL COHABITATION.-- CONTINUOUS OFFENCE.— Where the cohabitation is by the same man continuously and uninterruptedly with the same women, the defendant can be prose

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cuted but once for offense before indictment; but where cohabitation is continued after indictment, there can be a subsequent prosecution for that offense.

NEW TRIAL. NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE.-Newly discovered evidence that is merely a cumulation of evidence given upon trial or that is immaterial and irrelevant is not ground for new trial.

APPEAL from a judgment of the district court of the third district and from an order refusing a new trial. The opinion states the facts.

Mr. Le Grande Young, for appellants.

Mr. W. H. Dickson, for respondent.

BOREMAN, J.:

A

This is an action upon a recognizance in a criminal case, taken by a United States commissioner, for the appearance of the defendant therein before the district court. complaint was filed with E. B. Critchlow, a commissioner of this court, on the sixteenth day of February, 1886, by W. H. Dickson, who, being duly sworn, on information and belief complained "that George Q. Cannon, of Salt Lake City, in the County of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah, to-wit, on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1885, at Salt Lake City, in the County of Salt Lake, aforesaid, and on divers days thereafter, and continuously from the day and date last aforesaid until, to-wit, the first day of July, 1885, at said county, did unlawfully live and cohabit with more. than one woman, namely, with one Martha Tolly Cannon and with one Emily Little Cannon, and that during all the period aforesaid, at the county aforesaid, he, the said George Q. Cannon, did claim, live, and cohabit with both said women as wives, all of which is contrary to the statutes of," etc. Upon this complaint, he was by the officer brought before the commissioner, who was acting as an examining magistrate; and, an examination being waived by said Cannon, he was held to answer the charge, and was admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000 to appear and answer said charge in the district court. In consideration of the release of said Cannon from custody, the defend

ants (the appellants herein) executed and delivered their undertaking in writing in said sum of $10,000, as follows:

"Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake-ss.: Before Edward B. Critchlow, Esquire, commissioner of the supreme court of said territory, complaint having been made. before said commissioner on the sixteenth day of February, 1886, charging George Q. Cannon with having committed the crime of unlawful cohabitation with more than one woman between the twenty-fifth day of March, A. D. 1885, and the first day of July, A. D. 1885, and said George Q. Cannon having been brought before said commissioner by virtue of a warrant in due form of law issued upon said complaint, to answer thereto, and, upon examination being waived by defendant, said defendant having been held to answer thereon, and admitted to bail by said commissioner in the sum of $10,000, we, Francis Armstrong and H. S. Eldredge, hereby undertake that the above-named George Q. Cannon, defendant, will appear and answer the charge above mentioned in the district court of the third judicial district of said territory, to be holden at Salt Lake City, in said judicial district, on the seventeenth day of March next, or in whatever court it may be prosecuted, and will at all times hold himself amenable to the orders and process of the court; and, if convicted, will appear for judgment, and render himself in execution thereof; or, if he fail to perform either of these conditions, we will pay to the United States of America the sum of $10,000.

"FRANCIS ARMSTRONG, "H. S. ELDREDGE.

"Executed and acknowledged before me, and approved, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1886.

"E. B. CHRITCHLOW, Commissioner."

"Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake-ss.: Horace S. Eldredge and Francis Armstrong, being each duly sworn, each for himself, says he is a resident and freeholder in said territory of Utah, and is worth the amount specified in the foregoing undertaking, over and above all

debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from "FRANCIS ARMSTRONG, "H. S. ELDREDGE.

execution.

"Sworn to and subscribed before me, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1886.

"E. B. CRITCHLOW, Commissioner."

That in consideration of said undertaking, said Cannon was released from custody, but he failed to appear in the district court, as required by the undertaking, and the same was forfeited, and thereupon this action was instituted in the district court against the sureties in the undertaking, these defendants and appellants. The defendants demurred to the complaint, and, that being overruled, they filed their answer. The case was heard by the court, and judgment was given for the plaintiff. The defendants moved for a new trial, which was overruled, and thereupon the defendants appealed to this court from both the judgment and the order overruling the motion for a new trial.

1. The district court is alleged to have committed error in overruling appellant's demurrer to the complaint. The ground of this alleged error is that the complaint charges no offense to have been committed by "a male person with two or more women, the wives, or women held out as the wives, of the accused." If by this is meant that the complaint does not charge that the accused is a "male person," we deem the question to have been settled by the case of U. S. v. Cannon, 4 Utah, 122, and 116 U. S., 55, and in this respect the complaint is sufficient. The demurrer is general, and under it the allegation that the accused "unlawfully lived and cohabited with more than one woman as his wife" is sufficient. It is not objected that the complaint is ambiguous or uncertain.

2. It is assigned as error that the court below admitted in evidence the complaint made before the commissioner by W. H. Dickson, and upon which the accused was held when the undertaking was given for his discharge from custody. The objection to that paper was that it alleged the crime of unlawful cohabitation against the accused

"upon information and belief." The portion of the paper containing the objectionable words is as follows: "Personally appeared before me, this sixteenth day of February, 1886, W. H. Dickson, of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake, territory of Utah, who, first being duly sworn, on information and belief complains and says that," etc. In support of this assignment of error, the appellant cites us to four Michigan cases and one New York case. The latter (People v. Recorder of Albany, 6 Hill, 429) does not affect the question. If it has any bearing whatever, it is adverse to that of the appellants. It was a civil case, wherein the affidavit for the arrest of the defendant alleged facts in the alternative, and the court held that this could not be done. But it was held, further, that if the affidavit had shown that defendant owned tangible property, and had converted it into something else where it could not be definitely traced, the affiant might have. added his belief that the avails existed in some of the forms mentioned in the statute, without specifying which.

Of the Michigan cases referred to, none showed complaints or informations for the arrest of persons for preliminary examination; and two of them were civil cases, in which it is not the policy of the law to allow the power of arrest to be used except upon clear showing. We think that the principles of the Michigan cases of People v. Heffron, 53 Mich., 529, 19 N. W. Rep., 170; Brown v. Kelley, 20 Mich., 27; Badger v. Reade, 39 Mich., 771; and Smart v. Kimball, 43 Mich., 443-cannot be upheld as applicable to complaints or informations for the arrest of parties for preliminary examination. This view is supported by the case of Washburn v. People, 10 Mich., 372, referred to in the case of Swart v. Kimball, supra. It was an application made for a preliminary examination, with a view to holding a party to answer an indictment. The affidavit was made upon belief, and not upon knowledge, and the supreme court of that state held it to be sufficient. That adjudication has not been overruled nor disapproved; but the court, in making reference to it in Swart v. Kimball, supra, said: "That was an information filed after the evidence of

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