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Event ID: 8890 Book: Yuma County Court Minutes Page Number: 617-618
Event: Indictment Event Date: 12/07/1904 Event Place: Yuma
Notes:
The Territory of Arizona
vs
W. H. Laustaunau, defendant
The District Attorney being present, comes now the said defendant, W. H. Laustanau, and, upon being interrogated by the Court, states that he has no Counsel, and has no means wherewith to employ counsel herein. whereupon the court appoints Fred L. Ingraham, Esq. to act as counsel for defendant herein, as provided by law; and upon being arraigned at the Bar of this Court upon the Indictment found, and filed as a record of this Court, on the 7th day of December, A.D. 1904, and, said indictment being read aloud to him in open Court, the said defendant states that his true name is not as set out in said Indictment, but that his true name is Wenceslao H. Loustaunau, and thereupon it is directed by the Court that an entry thereof be made, and that all subsequent proceedings be had against the said defendant by the name of Wenceslao H. Loustaunau, referring also to the name W. H. Laustanau, by which he was first Indicted.
Thereupon, a copy of said Indictment, with the endorsements thereon, is handed to said defendant, and being called upon to answer thereto, the said defendant, through his counsel aforesaid, waives time, and replies that he is “not guilty as charged in the Indictment,” which said plea is ordered entered, and the defendant remanded to the custody of the Superintendent of the Territorial Prison, to appear herein, which is hereby ordered set for Friday, December 9th, A.D. 1904, at the hour of 9:00 o’clock A.M.
 
Event Relationship [2 Records]

Personal ID: 24697 Given Name: José Wenceslao Ricardo Surname: Loustaunau Relationship: Defendant
 
Personal ID: 24741 Given Name: Fred L. Surname: Ingraham Relationship: Counsel for the Defendant
 
 
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