COFFEY v. COUNTY COURT OF COUNTY OF JEFFERSON

No. 25352.

492 P.2d 839 (1972)

John Roland COFFEY, Petitioner, v. COUNTY COURT OF the COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, State of Colorado, Honorable E. A. Howard Baker, District Court Judge, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

January 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Kreisheimer, Jay L. Gueck, Denver, for petitioner.

Leonard R. Liss, County Atty., Jefferson County, A. L. Herrmann, Jr., Dist. Atty., Thomas Elliott, Deputy Dist. Atty., First Judicial Dist., Golden, for respondents.


DAY, Justice.

This is an original proceeding by which petitioner seeks a writ prohibiting the Jefferson County Court from executing a judgment sentencing the petitioner to five days in the county jail until the court has received and considered an application for probation.

Petitioner was convicted by a jury of careless driving. Upon being sentenced and fined $206, including costs, petitioner appealed to the district court which affirmed the conviction. Thereafter...

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