State v. Huffman

The state appeals the trial court’s dismissal of the criminal complaint filed in this matter based on the trial court’s conclusion that the citing police officer was without authority to issue the citation by service of the summons on defendant outside the jurisdiction of the officer’s employment.

Defendant was served on March 5, 1980, at her residence in Lake Oswego, Oregon, by a Tigard city policeman, with a uniform traffic summons1 which charged her with failing to perform the duties of a driver involved in an accident, ORS 483.604.2 The state alleged that defendant inflicted property…