State Ex Rel. Brooks v. Worrell

Berry, Judge:

This is a proceeding in prohibition instituted under the original jurisdiction of this Court by Edwin Robert Brooks to prohibit the Honorable Robert M. Worrell, Judge of the Circuit Court of Wyoming County, and D. Grove Moler, Prosecuting Attorney of Wyoming County, from proceeding further to try the petitioner on an indictment for “breaking and entering”. The petitioner contends that the respondent judge improperly declared a mistrial during the trial of the case, and that the Court should have sustained the petitioner’s plea of former jeopardy and should not have set the case…