Stage of Legal System
A majority of the cases featured in the Salt Lake Herald from 1880-1900, demonstrate that the legal-system's stage of charging drunkenness, and ciruclation of liquour, was catered primarily around trials and arrests (with fines, accompanying such). Ten out of forty cases from 1880-1900, regarding drunkenness charges were trials, thirtteen were arrests, six involved sentencing, two cases had extra-legal outcomes, two arraignments. This is indicative of a fairly advanced stage of the legal system whereby concerns drunkenness in the late 18th century to early 19th--and frankly this should not be surprising as this research regards a state which has had intensely puritan type views concerning the usage of alcohol/liquour, particularly in recreation. Utah had far more infastructure in place for Prohibition Era type mandates, prior to much of the country I would speculate--and in addition to this, there was more incentive for enforcement of such due to the sizable fines placed on individuals found guilty of public intoxication or circulation without liquour licenses. The latter, or circulation or sale of liquour was the far more profitable venture--and there is incentive in terms of 'public interest' in pursuing such cases as licenses generate much towards state-income--as does fining those operating without a license, and seeking to criminalize such (exchanging/selling liquour without a license).