Jackie L. Williams v. Dexter Payne

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of Williams's fourth habeas petition. It held that severed rape charges contained in one information did not deprive the circuit court of subject-matter jurisdiction, and that neither execution of the first sentence nor an appeal from the first conviction barred trials on the other offenses. The court also held that Williams's repeated double-jeopardy claim was barred as an abuse of the writ.