State Ex Rel. Parsons v. Cuppett

CarrigaN, Judge:

This is an original proceeding in prohibition instituted by Albert Richard Parsons, petitioner, against the Honorable D. E. Cuppett, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court of Grant County, respondent, hereinafter referred to as “the court,” in which petitioner seeks to prohibit his prosecution under an indictment charging petitioner with the murder of his wife, Ruth Parsons.

On September 20, 1971, this Court issued the rule in prohibition returnable October 5, 1971, and, after a continuance, the case was submitted for decision upon briefs and oral arguments of counsel for both sides…