JONES v. DISTRICT CT. IN & FOR CTY. OF ROUTT

No. 27972.

584 P.2d 81 (1978)

Ralph JONES, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF ROUTT, State of Colorado, the Honorable Donald Lorenz, District Court Judge and, Billy Joe West, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yegge, Hall & Evans, Daniel S. Maus, Steamboat Springs, Robert S. Treece, Carol M. Welch, Denver, for petitioner.

Vance E. Halvorson, Steamboat Springs, for respondent Billy Joe West.


CARRIGAN, Justice.

The petitioner brought this original proceeding pursuant to C.A.R. 21, seeking relief in the nature of mandamus. We issued a rule to show cause, and now make the rule absolute.

Shortly after midnight on November 24, 1974, the petitioner Jones and his wife were sitting in their truck, parked on a street in Oak Creek, Colorado, when the respondent West approached, addressed abusive language to the petitioner's wife, and began striking her...

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