State v. District Court in and for Delaware County

The defendant in a criminal case pending in the Delaware District Court made application to compel the State’s witnesses, as listed on the county attorney’s information charging the crime, to answer certain oral interrogatories to be propounded to them under the provisions of Division VII, particularly rules 140 to 148 inclusive, Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure. The witnesses appeared in answer to subpoenas, but on advice of the county attorney refused to answer. The respondent court, through the respondent presiding Judge, or dered them to answer, and the State brings certiorari, alleging the…