Matter of Hanson

BAKES, Chief Justice.

The State filed a petition for review of a decision of the Court of Appeals which affirmed the magistrate court’s refusal to suspend the petitioner’s driver’s license. The sole issue on appeal is whether the magistrate court erred in summarily terminating a driver’s license suspension proceeding and returning the license to a driver on the ground that the court did not have jurisdiction to proceed because the affidavit filed by the officer was invalid. We conclude that the magistrate erred.

On September 4, 1988, Scott Hanson (Hanson) was arrested by Officer Curtis Cooley…