Pate v. District Court of Oklahoma County

This is a matter in which the petitioner filed his application asking this Court to assume original jurisdiction, and issue a writ of prohibition against the district court of Oklahoma County prohibiting that court from proceeding further in the trial of petitioner on two indictments returned by the Oklahoma County grand jury.

On January 13, 1966 this Court assumed original jurisdiction and directed the trial court to conduct an evidentiary hearing into facts concerning the applicability of the statute of limitations, in both cases, and to transmit the transcript of the proceedings of that…