District Court (Seventh District : Carbon County) Criminal registers of actions, 1896-1987.

This series documents the individual criminal cases tried by the Seventh District Court for Carbon County. Actions taken in each case are recorded on separate documents and then filed together to become the case file. As these documents enter the case file they are recorded in the Criminal registers of Actions.

Registers function as a chronological list of the actions taken in each criminal cases. A register of actions can contain the following: attorney for plaintiff and defendant, name of the judge presiding over the case, petitions, complaint, summons, answers to summons, orders from the court, assignment of judges, exhibits, judgment, findings and conclusions, costs, decrees, requests by the attorneys for instructions to the jury, verdict,motions for cross complaints or new trials, amendments to previous answers, and disclaimers.