Stahl v. Shoemaker

Relative to considering the allowance or denial of extraordinary writs, this court possesses original jurisdiction in habeas corpus by virtue of specific constitutional statement;1 the exercise of such original jurisdiction likewise is constitutionally granted to courts of appeal.2 Our jurisdiction entails the corresponding responsibility to regulate the use by the courts of such extraordinary writ as habeas corpus.3

*353. Consequently, in the cause before, us today, our primary question must concern the appropriateness of the remedy sought. The common and statutory law of this state makes it…