Adlington v. State

Petitioner-cross-respondent, defendant in the trial court and appellant in the circuit court, seeks issuance of a writ of certiorari directed to an order of the circuit court which, inter alia, affirmed her conviction for petit larceny (shoplifting).

Respondent-cross-petitioner, prosecution in the trial court and appellee in the circuit court, has cross-petitioned this court to quash a portion of that same order which reversed petitioner-cross-respondent’s conviction for resisting arrest without violence.

Petitioner-cross-respondent was charged with the crimes of petit larceny, in violation of…