State Ex Rel. R.L. v. Bedell

NEELY, Justice:

R.L. seeks to prohibit his further prosecution under an indictment issued by the Harrison County Grand Jury during its May 1993 term because the indictment, although signed by the grand jury foreperson, did not contain the attestation of the Prosecuting Attorney of Harrison County to the signature of the grand jury foreperson as required by W.Va. Code 62-9-1 [1931]. The indictment against R.L. was sought, not by the prosecuting attorney but, by S.D.W.1, a private citizen who alleges that approximately seventeen years ago, when she was five years old, R.L. sexu*437ally assaulted…