State v. Caffee

Hunstein, Chief Justice.

Van Allen Caffee was convicted of malice murder, kidnapping, and other charges arising out of the shooting death of James Robert Lewis.1 After the trial court granted Caffee’s motion for new trial, he filed a plea in bar contending that double jeopardy prohibited a second trial on the same charges. The trial court granted the plea in bar, and the State filed this direct appeal challenging the grant of a new trial and the plea in bar. Because we lack jurisdiction to consider the State’s appeal of the new trial order, we dismiss that portion of the appeal. Concerning the…