Pitts v. McCrary

WIGGINTON, Judge.

Petitioners have filed in this court their suggestion for writ of prohibition and other extraordinary relief. They pray for issuance of a writ prohibiting the respondent circuit judge of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit from holding a scheduled hearing in Port St. Joe for the purpose of arraigning petitioners on the indictment for murder pending against them. Port St. Joe is the county seat of Gulf County in which the offense for which petitioners are charged is alleged to have been committed. In the alternative, petitioners pray for a writ directing respondent to reschedule…