State v. PIERCE

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harman, C.:

In this criminal proceeding the state of Kansas appeals from an order quashing two counts contained in an information.

By way of background we are told that as a result of certain events allegedly occurring at a Wichita motel on October 17, 1968, the nine persons who are appellees herein were charged with various criminal offenses. After preliminary hearing they were bound over for trial to the district court of Sedgwick county upon several charges. The record is indefinite as to exactly what all these charges were but they included two…