State v. Pruett

SPEAR, Justice.

Michael T. Pruett, defendant, appeals to the supreme court following his conviction for reckless driving after a jury trial in the district court for Ada County. On September 24, 1965, Pruett left Mountain Home at between 9:35 and 9:40 p.m. allegedly traveling at speeds up to 105 m.p.h., before finally stopped at a roadblock set up by the state police at Gowen Field Road and Highway 30, east of Boise, a distance of 34 miles, at about 10:00 p.m.

Pruett was charged by criminal complaint in the justice court for Ada County with the crime of reckless driving. The criminal complaint…