Thompson v. Erwin

Steele Hays, Justice.

Petitioners seek a writ of mandamus ordering the respondent, the Honorable Harold S. Erwin, Circuit Judge of Randolph County, to proceed forthwith to the trial of a case involving their daughter as prosecutrix. Petitioners are the parents and next friends of Jennifer Thompson, who has charged five males with rape arising from an incident occurring on August 4, 1990, when Jennifer was thirteen. An information was filed against the five defendants on August 27, 1990.

The case was first set for trial on September 24, 1990, and reset to February 25. Thereafter four…