Stockwell v. State

BAKES, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting Michael Jerome Stockwell’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.1 If the procedural irregularities on both sides are overlooked, the appeal by the state attempts to raise the following issues: (1) whether a magistrate in a preliminary hearing may reduce *799the charge in a complaint when the evidence presented in a preliminary hearing is capable of sustaining inferences supporting the charge in the complaint; (2) under what circumstances can the prosecuting attorney have a preliminary hearing reopened to submit additional evidence supporting…