State Ex Rel. Anaya v. Select Western Lands, Inc.

OPINION

WALTERS, Judge.

Defendant, Select Western Lands, Inc., appeals district court convictions after a de novo hearing on defendant’s appeal from magistrate court, on eighteen charges of violating the County Subdivision Act. (§§ 47-6-1, et seq., N.M.S.A.1978). The trial court, sitting without a jury, imposed the maximum fine of $1,000 on each of the eighteen counts. Seven other counts were dismissed either in the magistrate or district court proceedings because of statute of limitation defenses.

In 1969 Select Western acquired 3,400 acres of land near Cerrillos known as the Gene West Ranch.…