Good v. Handlan

MILLER, Chief Justice:

In this original prohibition action, the relator, Dorothy Good, seeks to prohibit the Circuit Court of Pleasants County from trying her on a second degree murder indictment because of the delay in bringing her to trial. 1 Her main contentions are that this delay violated the one-term rule under W.Va.Code, 62-3-1, and the three-term rule under W.Va.Code, 62-3-21, requiring the dismissal with prejudice of the indictment. We conclude the relator is not entitled to the writ of prohibition.

The relator was indicted in the January 1984 term of the Circuit Court of Pleasants…