Fletcher v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

Appellant Kenneth Fletcher filed a notice of appeal from the trial court’s refusal to grant his motion to dismiss an information filed in Lonoke County Circuit Court charging him with four counts of incest on the grounds of former jeopardy. He specifically invokes the province of this court by stating in the jurisdictional statement of his brief that “the relief sought by appellant is in the nature of prohibition because of former jeopardy and prohibition is the remedy within the sole jurisdiction of the Arkansas Supreme Court, pursuant to Rule 1-2(a)(6).”

Prohibit…