Title: Pueblo v. Sanders
Citation: 376 P.2d 996
Docket Number: 20244
State: Colorado
Issuer: Colorado Supreme Court
Date: December 17, 1962

376 P.2d 996 (1962) PUEBLO, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Floyd E. SANDERS, Defendant in Error. No. 20244. Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc. December 17, 1962. Gordon D. Hinds, John R. Naylor, II, Pueblo, for plaintiff in error. *997 No appearance for defendant in error. McWILLIAMS, Justice. Sanders was charged and convicted in the municipal court of Pueblo with violating the following municipal ordinance: Sanders perfected an appeal to the county court of Pueblo County, where upon trial de novo a jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Over objections interposed by Pueblo the following instructions, inter alia, were read to the jury: By writ of error Pueblo seeks disapproval of the giving of these instructions. In its brief Pueblo states that "we will treat a prosecution for an ordinance violation in all respects the same as though it were a prosecution for a violation of a criminal statute". There is no appearance for Sanders in this Court. The matter being in this posture, we now hold that instructions numbered seven and eight are not subject to challenge, though the instruction numbered nine is disapproved. See 43 A.L.R. 2nd, pp. 518 and 519, where it is said: Also, in 56 Am.Jur. pp. 998 and 999, appears the following: Finally, in McCray v. Denver, 144 Colo. 1, 354 P.2d 585, we declared: Judgment disapproved. HALL, J., dissents.