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94 N.M. 278

State v. Mayberry

New Mexico Supreme Court

Decided April 11, 1980

New Mexico Supreme Court · decided 1980-04-11

Relies on State v. Mann · United Dairymen v. Fisher-Miller Hay & Development Co.

Decided 1980-04-11

¶1ORDER

PAYNE, Justice.

¶2This case comes before us on a petition for writ of certiorari and raises the same issue as that recently resolved by this Court in State v. Mann, 94 N.M. 276, 609 P.2d 609 723 (1980). The issue is whether magistrate courts can rely upon N.M.Magis.-R. Crim.P. 17(b), N.M.S.A.1978, in dismissing felony charges over which they have no trial jurisdiction. They cannot. For the reasons set forth in Mann, we reverse the Court of Appeals. The State may proceed with its prosecution of the defendants under the grand jury indictment issued against them on November 13, 1979.

¶3IT IS SO ORDERED.

SOSA, C. J., and EASLEY, FEDERICI and FELTER, JJ., concur.
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