State ex rel. Walker v. Lee

OWEN, Chief Judge.

Relator filed suggestion for writ of prohibition to prohibit respondent from proceeding with the announced trial of relator for a charged violation of the drug abuse laws. We issued a rule to show cause, respondent filed an answer and brief and relator filed his reply brief. The cause is now ready for final disposition, the court having dispensed with oral argument pursuant to Rule 3.10(e), F.A.R.

Relator alleged double jeopardy in that theretofore he had been brought to trial on the same offense and after the jury had *451been impanelled and sworn respondent had declared a…