State ex rel. Peterson v. Weissing

THORNAL, Justice.

Relator Peterson seeks a rule nisi in prohibition to stop his scheduled prosecution-under an information charging him with unlawfully prescribing narcotics and obtaining narcotic drugs by fraud.

The determining point is whether this Court has jurisdiction to issue the writ.

Peterson was informed against in two counts of unlawfully prescribing narcotics and two counts of obtaining narcotic drugs by fraud.

Relator Peterson contends that his prosecution should be prohibited for the asserted reason that prior to the filing of the information he had been compelled to testify under…