State ex rel. Schafer v. Fenton

MOLLOY, Judge.

This court has granted certiorari as to an order dismissing a direct information filed in the superior court charging the operation of a Piper Tri-Pacer aircraft while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The dismissal was entered by the court on the basis of a petition indicating that the defendant had paid for the damage to the aircraft which he had flown on the occasion in question and that the “injured parties” (the owners of this aircraft and their insurance agency), desired “ * * * to compromise the misdemeanor under the authority of A.R.S. 13-1591.”

The granting of…