GOOD v. HANDLAN

No. 16968.

342 S.E.2d 111 (1986)

Dorothy GOOD v. Hon. Joseph H. HANDLAN, Judge, etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

April 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Watson, William E. Watson & Assoc., Wellsburg, G. Charles Hughes, Moundsville, for appellant.

Charlie Brown, Atty. Gen., Mary Rich Maloy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.


MILLER, Chief Justice:

In this original prohibition action, the relator, Dorothy Good, seeks to prohibit the Circuit Court of Pleasants County from trying her on a second degree murder indictment because of the delay in bringing her to trial.1 Her main contentions are that this delay violated the one-term rule under W.Va.Code, 62-3-1, and the three-term rule under W.Va.Code, 62-3-21, requiring...

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