Helton v. State

This is a petition for certiorari wherein the petitioner seeks to have this Court issue its common law writ of certiorari to review the action of the Criminal Judge in declining to sustain the petitioner’s plea of once in jeopardy interposed by him in the trial of a criminal case against him. We will not discuss the merits of the action of the trial judge at this time because any discussion thereof at the present is premature. Should the writ be granted then the case of necessity would be docketed and reached in the normal call of this Court’s docket.

The issuance of the common law writ of…