State v. Spitz

HAIRE, Judge.

On this appeal by the State of Arizona from an order entered by the Maricopa County Superior Court granting the defendant-appellee’s motion to quash a misdemeanor complaint initially filed in the Police Court of the City of Tempe, this Court has, sua sponte, raised the question of its jurisdiction. Upon the original trial of this matter in the police court, the defendant was convicted of selling obscene materials to a minor in violation of § 21-18 of the Tempe city code. He was subsequently sentenced to pay a $300.00 fine and to spend ninety days in the Maricopa county jail.…