Court Opinion

ID: 5155035
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 02:14:02.174602+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:54:22.113668
License: Public Domain

In my view, the main opinion nullifies the plainly expressed intent of the legislature in Sec. 76-1-402(2) of our new penal code; misinterprets Sec. 77-16-1; and glides too easily over Article VIII, Sec. 7, Constitution of Utah. For those reasons, and the more extensive discussion of them in my dissent in Statev. Cooley, Utah, 575 P.2d 693, 694-696 (1978), I dissent. Statutory references are to U.C.A. 1953.
STEWART, J., concurs in the views expressed in the dissenting opinion of MAUGHAN, J.