State v. Allen

Ruffin, Presiding Judge.

In separate appeals, the State challenges the trial court’s orders quashing an accusation charging Craig Allen with several misdemeanors and granting Allen’s motion to prohibit further prosecution. For reasons that follow, we affirm the order quashing the accusation, but reverse the ruling prohibiting further prosecution.

The record reveals that, on September 28, 2000, Allen, a Georgia State Trooper, received a telephone call from his daughter, who told him that boys at a local high school were “trying to jump on her.” Dressed in street clothes, Allen drove to the…