PEOPLE v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

No. 79SA201.

599 P.2d 260 (1979)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado and City of Aurora, Petitioners, v. The DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the 17TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, COUNTY OF ADAMS, State of Colorado, Jean Jacobucci, Chief Judge of Said Court, Harlan Bockman, a Judge of Said Court and Frank Hayes, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

August 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Sprague, City Atty., Claybourne M. Douglas, Aurora, for petitioners.

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Craig L. Truman, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Dorian E. Welch, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for respondents District Court.


GROVES, Justice.

The People brought an original proceeding to contest the jurisdiction of the respondent district court to order the release of a person confined to the Adams County jail for failure to satisfy a fine and costs in the amount of $56. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

After the respondent Hayes pled guilty to a charge of malicious injury to property under section 10-1-10 of the Aurora Municipal Code, he failed to...

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