Court Opinion

ID: 9577476
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:35:18.75004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:39.561490
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OPINION ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
BUSSEY, Judge:
On the 13th day of August, 1976, this Court affirmed the Order of the trial court sustaining the Demurrer to the In-formations. On rehearing, the City of Tulsa asserts that it is inconsistent for this Court to hold that the Informations in question were insufficient and then to uphold the trial court’s Order that jeopardy had attached to preclude further action by the City in these three cases. Although the City’s assertion has some merit, it is ultimately more correct to view the case at *105bar as one' involving a statutory bar to further prosecution rather than in terms of jeopardy. This follows from the action of the trial court in sustaining the Appellee’s Demurrer to the Informations, which were insufficient. We are of the opinion that this situation falls within 22 O.S.1971, § 508, which provides as follows:
“If the demurrer is sustained, the judgment is final upon the indictment or information demurred to, and is a bar to another prosecution for the same offense, unless the court, being of opinion that the objection on which the demurrer is sustained may be avoided in a new indictment or information, direct the case to be resubmitted to the same or another grand jury, or that a new information be filed.”
Therefore, further prosecution is barred under this statute in accordance with the court’s Order, and the question of whether jeopardy attached is not a real consideration.
Another contention of the City in its Petition for Rehearing pertains to the sufficiency of the informations. This issue has been decided in our holding that the infor-mations were insufficient, and will not be disturbed.
The final contention of the City is that our decision in this case makes it impossible for Municipal and Traffic Courts to rely on citations as informations. Our decision does not affect the provisions of 11 O.S.1975 Supp., § 785.1, pertaining to commencement of prosecutions in a Municipal Court of Record, nor the previous decisions of this Court upholding citations as proper informations when properly executed.
For the above and foregoing reasons, the decision as previously rendered is hereby AFFIRMED, and the Clerk of this Court is directed to issue the Mandate FORTHWITH.
BRETT, P. J., and BLISS, J., concur.