State v. Harrison

HARRIS, Justice.

These criminal convictions must be reversed because the accused had formerly been placed in jeopardy on the same charges. Defendant Kent Allen Harrison is alleged to have entered his parents’ home, confronted his mother about a property dispute, and threatened to kill her. Officers were called and proceeded to Harrison’s trailer where he confronted them with a rifle. Because they considered him intoxicated, the officers withdrew and met with family members where it was agreed to best let him “sleep it off’ and to confront him the following morning.

While this consensus was…