Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Overruled and Denied December 3, 1985.
DIXON, Judge.
The State appeals from the circuit court's order sustaining the defendant's motion to dismiss a first degree murder charge on double jeopardy grounds. The issue presented is whether a dismissal of a capital murder charge on double jeopardy grounds also bars a trial for first degree murder.
The facts are relatively simple and not contested. The...
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