Wilson v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

James Boyd Wilson, Jr. appeals from the denial of his motion and plea in bar of procedural double jeopardy with regard to his indictment on a charge of theft by receiving. Wilson contends that, despite his own confession to theft by taking, the subsequent confession of his minor nephew to the crime prior to the original indictment put the district attorney on notice of the grounds for a charge of theft by receiving against Wilson which should have been pursued in the original proceedings. “The appellate standard of review of a grant [or denial] of a double jeopardy plea in…