ALPERT, Judge.
In the fourth year of President James Monroe's second term (1824), Supreme Court Justice Story declared the polestar of mistrial/double jeopardy cases: the "manifest necessity" rule.
The issue in this case is whether the trial court correctly declared a mistrial based on the unexpected absence of the key prosecution witness. In contending that the mistrial was declared improperly, appellant Gregory Allen McCorkle has asked us to address the...
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