People ex rel. Gallagher v. County Court In & For the County of Arapahoe

PLANK, Judge.

Respondents, the Arapahoe County Court and the Honorable Ralph Taylor, appeal a district court order which found, pursuant to C.R.C.P. 106(a)(4), that the respondent court had exceeded its jurisdiction and/or abused its discretion in dismissing counts of a criminal complaint, and which directed that those counts be reinstated. We reverse and remand.

A defendant was charged in a four-count criminal information. He appeared before the respondent court on August 13, 1986, and requested a preliminary hearing. The hearing was set for September 4, 1986, on the felony charge of menacing…