People ex rel. Gallagher v. District Court In & For the Eighteenth Judicial District, County of Arapahoe

LOHR, Justice.

In this original proceeding pursuant to C.A.R. 21, we issued a rule directing the Arapahoe County District Court and one of its judges to show cause why that court and judge should not be prohibited from delay*1010ing the sentencing of James Robert Hyde on his felony conviction for. third-degree burglary until he has served his sentence for misdemeanor theft. Both convictions are based upon the same incident. We conclude that the delay in imposition of sentence for the felony conviction is contrary to law and therefore make the rule absolute.

Hyde was charged by information in…