Morris v. Weaver

11 Petitioner, Louis Oberlin Morris, seeks a writ of certiorari or, in the alternative, a writ of prohibition on the basis that the Fulton County Circuit Court is proceeding against him without jurisdiction due to the running of the applicable statute of limitations for rape. Petitioner first raised this argument below in a motion to dismiss the rape charges against him, and the circuit court heard argument and evidence on the motion at a pretrial hearing. The circuit court then entered its written order denying the dismissal. After we took the petition for extraordinary writ as a case, and…