Smith v. Plegge

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

Petitioner William Otis Smith seeks a writ of prohibition against Respondent Honorable John B. Plegge and the Pulaski County Circuit Court to prevent a trial on a charge of second-degree battery.1 Respondent trial court denied Mr. Smith’s motion to dismiss the charge on speedy-trial grounds, and he now seeks a writ of prohibition in this court pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 28.1(d). We must deny the writ because the abstract of the record does not show that the writ is clearly warranted.

On October 3, 1997, Mr. Smith was arrested at the Pulaski County Detention…