STATE EX REL. ERLEWINE v. THOMPSON

No. 13237.

207 S.E.2d 105 (1973)

STATE ex rel. Gary ERLEWINE v. The Honorable James Lee THOMPSON, Judge, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 5, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Armada, Poca, for relator.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., Richard E. Hardison, Deputy Atty. Gen., E. Leslie Hoffman, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondents.


CAPLAN, Chief Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition the petitioner Gary Erlewine seeks a writ to prohibit James Lee Thompson, Judge of the Circuit Court of Putnam County and Clarence L. Watt, Prosecuting Attorney of said county, from further prosecuting him on a certain indictment returned against him by the grand jury of the Circuit Court of Putnam County. The indictment was returned during the July Term...

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