State ex rel. Pinsoneault v. District Court of the Fourth Judicial District

This is an original proceeding filed by the county attorney of Missoula County against the district court of the fourth judicial district, and the judge thereof, the Honorable E. Gardner Brownlee. The petition sought a writ of certiorari or other appropriate writ.

We issued an order to show cause returnable before this court. In our order to show cause, we directed the district judge to set aside his order dismissing an information against two defendants, Dale Howard Smith and Loy Garth Olsen, which information charged assault in the second degree, a felony, or to appear before this court to…