State Ex Rel. Farley v. Spaulding

McCUSKEY, Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, the petitioner, Stan Farley, Sheriff of Putnam County, petitions this Court to issue a writ of prohibition preventing the Honorable O.C. Spaulding, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Putnam County, from enforcing two administrative orders which he entered on August 26, 1997. Pursuant to the judge’s orders, nine individuals, who had been hired by the Putnam County Commission to perform court security functions for the county’s judiciary, were designated as court marshals and granted certain powers and duties.

Sheriff Farley attacks…