State v. Coleman

MADDOX, Justice.

Robert Wayne Coleman seeks a writ of prohibition barring the State from trying him for murder and assault. He seeks the writ on the ground that he has already been tried and convicted on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol arising out of the same incident, and that the State’s prosecution of him on the reckless murder and assault charges would therefore constitute double jeopardy under the principles of law set forth in Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508, 110 S.Ct. 2084, 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990).1

Coleman was involved in an automobile accident on May 13, 1988. As a…