State v. Gordon

UDALL, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Arizona from an order granting defendant-appellee, Arthur Leslie Gordon’s motion to quash a direct information charging him with the offense of “Negligent Homicide”. We will refer to the parties as the “State” and defendant.

We thoroughly agree with defense counsel that “the case is in an odd procedural posture”, for actually it appears the trial court made this ruling in a left-handed and unorthodox attempt to foist upon us for determination a legal question which it should have determined according to its best light, “letting the chips fall…