Williams v. Crews

Josef Williams seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the circuit court in the county in which he is confined from transferring his petition for writ of habeas corpus to his sentencing court. The habeas petition Williams intends to file will argue that his judgment and sentence is void because the sentencing judge did not take the required oath of office. We deny relief, concluding that petitioner has failed to establish that the transfer of his petition would amount to an act outside of or in excess of the circuit court’s jurisdiction, so as to warrant prohibition relief. See English v.…