Bates v. People

Opinion by

MR. JUSTICE ERICKSON.

Plaintiff in error, Michael Norman Bates, was charged with maliciously and feloniously destroying personal property and with causing damage to the personal property in an amount exceeding $500. C.R.S. 1963, 40-18-1. He was also charged with conspiracy to commit the identical offense which was described in the malicious mischief charge. C.R.S. 1963, 40-7-35. The charges arose out of an incident in which an unmarked Aurora police car was damaged when some dynamite, allegedly thrown out of Bates’ automobile window by a co-conspirator, rolled under the police car…