State Ex Rel. Campbell v. Wood

BrowNING, Judge:

In this original proceeding, petitioner, Robert Keith Campbell, seeks to prohibit the respondents, the Honorable George W. Wood, Judge of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County and Charles M. Walker, Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County, from trying petitioner in the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County upon an indictment charging petitioner with the offense of murder.

The facts are undisputed. The petition alleges, and the answer admits, that petitioner was indicted by the grand jury attending the June, 1966, term of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County for the offense…