Matter of Hunt

WELLS, Judge.

The single issue raised by respondents’ counsel in these cases concerns whether the trial court’s granting the State or ordering a continuance for the sole purpose of allowing the State time to present additional evidence against the respondents constituted placing them in double jeopardy in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment has been made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Benton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784, 23 L.Ed. 2d 707, 89 S.Ct. 2056 (1969). The Double Jeopardy…