Opinion
No. T 44858, CA 8201 No. T 44730, CA 8202 No. T 45401, 8203
Submitted on records and appellant's brief December 22, 1977, CA 8201 and 8202 dismissed, CA 8203 reversed and remanded January 16, opinion modified on reconsideration 34 Or. App. 17, 578 P.2d 807 May 8, 1978
Appeal from District Court, Linn County.
Carl G. Stanley, Judge.
James A. Redden, Attorney General, Al J. Laue, Solicitor General, and Thomas H. Denney, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, filed the brief for appellant.
James G. Nelson, Goode, Goode, Decker Beckham, P.C., Albany, appeared for respondents Michael Robert Patrick and Gerald Gene Spinney.
No appearance for respondent Clifford Connorton.
Before Schwab, Chief Judge, and Tanzer and Johnson, Judges.
CA Nos. 8201 and 8202 are dismissed. CA No. 8203 is reversed and remanded.
SCHWAB, C. J.
In these three consolidated appeals the trial judge sustained demurrers to charges of violation of ORS 487.540, driving while under the influence of intoxicants. The trial judge was clearly in error on the merits. However, we can reach the question in only one of the three cases, State v. Connorton, in which the order appealed from states:
"* * * Defendant's Demurrer is hereby allowed and * * * the citation is hereby dismissed." (Emphasis supplied.)
In the other two cases, one order "allows" the demurrer and the other order "grants" the demurrer. The orders do not go on to dismiss the charges. As State v. Thomas, 32 Or. App. 85, 573 P.2d 1259 (1978), points out, the orders sustaining demurrers are not appealable.
CA Nos. 8201 and 8202 are dismissed. CA No. 8203 is reversed and remanded.