STATE v. ARANDA

No. 4553.

617 P.2d 173 (1980)

94 N.M. 784

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norberto P. ARANDA, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

September 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Lou Carson, Santa Fe, for defendant-appellant.

Jeff Bingaman, Atty. Gen., Walter G. Lombardi, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellee.


OPINION

WALTERS, Judge.

Defendant was scheduled to be tried on two drug charges, one a felony and one a misdemeanor, on August 23, 1979. He did not appear, but voluntarily turned himself in at the sheriff's office on September 13th. When he failed to appear for trial in August, a criminal complaint was issued, and it is from a conviction on the felony charge of willful failure to appear before the court, in violation of § 31-3-9(A), N.M.S.A. 1978, that...

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