Dingler v. State

Hall, Justice.

The Court of Appeals has certified the following question: "When two or more crimes are charged in separate counts in a single indictment, though committed at different times and places and involving transactions with different persons, and are of the same general nature or species, and the mode of trial is the same, is it mandatory that the trial judge, upon motion of defendant, order separate trials for each of the crimes charged?”

The problem is well-stated in ABA Standards Relating to the Administration of Criminal Justice, p. 285 (1974): "The interests which so often come…