Griffin v. State

The majority indicates venue in this case may have been erroneous but does not reach the issue because the appellant failed to seek a writ of prohibition in circuit court. Based upon that portion of the majority’s holding, I concur in the result it reached. I write because the court is divided four to three in this decision, and I wish to make my position clear that I may well have gone the other way if the court had considered the venue issue.

The venue question posed, but not answered here, arises when a municipal court entertains a state’s misdemeanor action against a defendant where the…