State Ex Rel. Sisco v. Buford

FINCH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition, the objective of which is to prevent respondent from trying relator on a charge of murder in the second degree. We make permanent the preliminary rule in prohibition heretofore entered.

Relator is charged with the murder of his girl friend, Janice Louise Dick. Summoned by neighbors to the Dick house on August 29,1974, officers found Miss Dick dead as a result of a shotgun wound. They also found relator, at first thought dead, with much of the left side of his face and head blown away by a shotgun blast.

Relator was bound over to the…