State v. Covington

The State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit seeks a petition for a writ of certiorari or, in the alternative, a writ of prohibition. By his petition, the State Attorney, Willie Meggs, seeks to overturn an order entered by the Honorable Charles W. Dodson in the above-styled cause. The order at issue requires the Office of the State Attorney to prepare proposed jury instructions and to submit them to the trial court on the day prior to the commencement of trial in cases pending before Judge Dodson. Because, in entering this order, the trial court did not depart from the essential…