Thomas v. County Court

In 1976 the Grand Jury of Pueblo County indicted the appellee Larry Thomas on four counts of first-degree perjury. Upon appellee’s motion, the indictment was dismissed on September 1, 1977, by the District Court for the Tenth Judicial District, on the grounds that the prosecuting *89attorney before the grand jury was not licensed to practice law in the State of Colorado.

The appellee was indicted again by the 1977 grand jury for the same four counts of perjury, plus one count of official misconduct. A different district court judge granted appellee’s motion to dismiss the second indictment for…