State v. Duboise

SHORES, Justice.

Delmer Duboise petitions for a writ of mandamus directing Judge John Jolly, of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, to transfer the indictment pending in this case to the nonjury docket of that court or to transfer it to the District Court of Franklin County. We grant the writ.

On May 23, 1995, Duboise was arrested by an investigator for the Franklin County district attorney’s office and charged with criminal solicitation, in violation of § 13A-4-1, Ala.Code, 1975. The events relating to this charge were highly publicized in Franklin County, because they involved an alleged…