Sherwood v. Glover

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

Petitioner, Laura Sherwood, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the Ashley County Circuit Court from trying her on three criminal charges. Sherwood alleges that the Ashley County Circuit Court denied her motion to dismiss the charges on speedy-trial grounds, and she now presents her petition to this court pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 28.1, which provides that criminal charges must be dismissed if the defendant is not tried within twelve months. We must deny the writ because the record and abstract do not contain all the information necessary for us to…