Strahan v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant William Strahan was charged in the Pine Bluff Municipal Court with one count of third-degree battery. The prosecutor filed a criminal information in Strahan’s case on April 25, 2000, and the case was given the docket number of SDCR-00-2106. Pine Bluff Municipal Judge Robert Tolson signed the criminal summons on April 26, 2000. After consulting with the victim and learning that the victim’s injuries might be more serious than first thought, the prosecutor, Steve Dalrymple, recalled the third-degree battery summons in SDCR-00-2106 on May 1, 2000. This charge was…