State v. Ruiz

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Idaho from the order of a magistrate court dismissing a criminal complaint on the basis that the State had not shown probable cause that the accused committed the crimes charged. From that order of the magistrate court, the State appealed to the district court which dismissed the appeal as being unauthorized by Idaho’s criminal rules. On this appeal from the district court, we affirm.

The facts in brief indicate that at approximately midnight September 6, 1981, a fight was taking place outside a bar in Caldwell, Idaho when someone fired…