Hopkinson v. State

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

THOMAS, Chief Justice.

The Court having considered Petitioner’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus finds that it should be denied for the following reasons:

1. This Court has decided the question of whether Petitioner could be charged and tried as a principal in Wyoming for accessorial acts taking place in another state. Hopkinson v. State, Wyo., 632 P.2d 79, 97-100 (1981), cert. denied 455 U.S. 922, 102 S.Ct. 1280, 71 L.Ed.2d 463 (1982) (Hopkinson I). In use of the word “overboard” the Court was referring to dicta, of Goldsmith v. Cheney, Wyo.,…