Ex Parte Cooks

BOYD, Chief Justice.

In this appeal from the denial of a pretrial writ of habeas corpus, appellant George Ellis Cooks, Jr. asserts that his retrial for the offense of aggravated robbery is barred by the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment to that constitution. He also asserts that his retrial would violate the double jeopardy clause of article 1, section 14 of our state constitution, as well as the similar provision of article 1.10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Disagreeing with those…