State Ex Rel. Kees v. Sanders

McHUGH, Justice:

In this original prohibition proceeding, the petitioner, Albert Kees, seeks to prohibit the respondent, the Honorable David Sanders, Judge of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, from enforcing an order in which he denied the petitioner’s motion to remand a traffic charge to municipal court for a new trial with court-appointed counsel. Upon consideration of the petition and the response thereto, we conclude that the writ of prohibition should be denied.

I

On May 11,1993, the petitioner was issued a traffic citation in the city of Martinsburg, West Virginia, for allegedly…