Shockley v. State

This dismissal for mootness marks the second occasion in which this Court’s requirement that notice be given prior to denial of bail on appeal has failed to survive State’s motion for rehearing and thus failed to become part of the jurisprudence of our State. The first occasion of course was when the State was successful in getting a dismissal for mootness in the case of Hunter v. State, No. 770-85 (delivered Oct. 23, 1985, dismissed on State’s Motion for Rehearing in an unpublished opinion delivered on May 7, 1986).

Just so the judges of this State will have the benefit of the Court’s…