Owens v. Taylor

Steele Hays, Justice.

James Owens seeks a writ of prohibition against the Honorable H.A. Taylor, Circuit Judge of Jefferson County, Arkansas, asserting that the circuit court has no subject matter jurisdiction to impose conditions on Owens’s release from the Arkansas State Hospital. We ordered a temporary stay in the proceedings below so that briefs could be submitted. Having considered the arguments, we grant the writ.

Owens was charged on March 23,1987, with second degree battery. While resisting arrest he drew a straight razor from his shoe and in the struggle with the officers Owens…