Utah Supreme Court, 1981

State v. Owens

State v. Owens
Utah Supreme Court · Decided March 10, 1981 · Maughan, Hall, Howe, Stewart, Oaks
627 P.2d 70; 1981 Utah LEXIS 786 (Pacific Reporter, Second Series)

State v. Owens

Opinion of the Court

MAUGHAN, Chief Justice:

The Utah County Attorney brings this appeal from the District Court’s granting of the defendants’ motion to quash the information. The record reveals the appeal was exclusively taken by the County Attorney in the name of the State and does not indicate that he was rendering assistance as requested by the Attorney General in relation to the appeal. In our recent decision in State v. Loddy, Utah, 618 P.2d 60 (1980), we concluded such actions to be beyond the authority of the County Attorney. Following that decision the present appeal is dismissed.

HALL, HOWE, STEWART and OAKS, JJ., concur.

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