Wynn v. State

This Court’s first impression of this case will hopefully be its last one as well. Time has so eroded the circumstances that the judge who presided at the initial arraignment is no longer a member of the court, the original state’s attorney is a member of this Court, the original defense attorney is the present state’s attorney, the succeeding defense attorney is an assistant attorney general and the assistant state’s attorneys assigned to prosecute have changed not only their identities but their “bargains” as well.

Nearly five years ago, on December 5, 1969, Joseph Eugene Wynn was indicted…