State v. Lyon

This is an appeal by Lyon, a motorcyclist who was convicted in a jury trial of evading a police officer when, at about 4:00 a. m., leaving a public thoroughfare intersection in Ogden, Utah, he refused to stop when signalled to do so by one Carpenter, a “security officer” employed by Weber College to patrol the campus and also its “Events Center,” which is separated from the campus, about four blocks away. The complaint was filed under the Motor Vehicle Act, Sec. 41-6-169.10, Utah Code Annotated 1953, as amended, the essential part of which is:

Any driver who, having received a visual or…