Carroll v. State

This court has authority to stay proceedings pending an appeal, Bowen v. State, 323 Ark. 233, 913 S.W.2d 304 (1996); Clark v. State, 308 Ark. 453, 824 S.W.2d 345 (1992), and certainly it has done so when a meritorious reason has been shown. In the present case, petitioner Terry Carroll requests this court issue a writ of prohibition, to order the trial court to desist from proceeding with his trial scheduled to begin on July 8, 1996. Carroll’s request is assertedly made so that this court might consider his interlocutory appeal from the trial judge’s denial of his motion to transfer to…