PEOPLE EX REL. VanMEVEREN v. DISTRICT COURT

No. 80SA363.

619 P.2d 494 (1980)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado ex rel. Stuart A. VANMEVEREN, District Attorney, Eighth Judicial District of Colorado, Petitioner, v. The DISTRICT COURT In and For the COUNTY OF LARIMER, State of Colorado, and the Honorable John-David Sullivan, One of the Judges Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

November 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart A. VanMeveren, Dist. Atty., Stephen J. Roy, Terence A. Gilmore, Deputy Dist. Attys., Fort Collins, for petitioner.

No Appearance for respondents.


QUINN, Justice.

In this original proceeding the People seek relief in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent court to reinstate a criminal information against Ralph Loren Bollig (defendant) charging him with first-degree arson, section 18-4-102(1), C.R.S. 1973 (1978 Repl. Vol. 8). The respondent court dismissed the information after a preliminary hearing on the ground that the defendant's conduct did not constitute arson as a matter of law. We issued a rule...

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