STATE v. TAYLOR

No. 3119.

566 P.2d 1016 (1977)

STATE of Alaska, Appellant, v. Timothy TAYLOR and Sidney Lee Vail, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan Lawner, Asst. Dist. Atty., and Joseph D. Balfe, Dist. Atty., Anchorage and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant.

William P. Bryson, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellee Timothy Taylor.

Michael W. Sharon, Cole, Hartig, Rhodes, Norman & Mahoney, Kodiak, for appellee Sidney Vail.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, JJ., and DIMOND, J. Pro Tem.


DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem.

A grand jury indicted appellants, Timothy Taylor and Sidney Lee Vail, for the offenses of assault with a dangerous weapon1 and larceny in a building.2 The superior court granted the motion of the defendants to dismiss the indictments on the ground that the state had presented to the grand jury inadmissible hearsay testimony without a showing of compelling justification. From this dismissal...

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