State v. Griffin

Hines, Justice.

The State appeals the trial court’s grant of Griffin’s plea in bar to his indictment for murder. Griffin’s plea was based on OCGA § 17-7-53.1 and the fact that a murder indictment against him had previously been quashed by the Superior Court of McIntosh County, as *541had one in the Superior Court of Thomas County.1

Griffin was first indicted for the murder of Jenny Marie Rhames by a McIntosh County grand jury in 1992. He was tried, a mistrial was declared, and the indictment was later quashed on procedural grounds.2 Griffin was reindicted for Rhames’ murder in McIntosh County in…