State Ex Rel. Williams v. SUPERIOR CT IN & FOR CTY OF PIMA

KRUCKER, Judge.

This special action presents the question of whether the offense of disturbing the peace is compromisable under A.R.S. § 13-1591, as amended. The respondent court, on appeal from a City Court conviction, concluded that it did. Since such ruling is not reviewable by appeal to this court, State v. Spitz, 15 Ariz.App. 120, 486 P.2d 800 (1971), appellate intervention by way of special action is appropriate.

The misdemeanor compromise statute, with certain exceptions which we need not consider here, provides for dismissal of the prosecution when a defendant is accused of a…