PEOPLE v. YANAGA

No. 80CA0991.

635 P.2d 925 (1981)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Patrick Shoji YANAGA, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

October 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., William Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

L. Gary Hebenstreit, Lakewood, for defendant-appellant.


KIRSHBAUM, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction by jury of vehicular assault, alleging error in the instructions given by the trial court. We affirm.

The information in this case alleges that on March 10, 1979, defendant committed vehicular assault in violation of § 18-3-205, C.R.S. 1973 (1978 Repl. Vol. 8). The applicable section of that statute defines such offense as follows:

"If a person operates or drives a motor vehicle in a reckless...

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