State ex rel. State v. Alsop

This original proceeding is before this Court upon the petition of the State of West Virginia [hereinafter “the State”] praying for a writ of prohibition to be directed against the Honorable Jack Asop, Judge of the Circuit Court of Webster County. Specifically, petitioner seeks to prohibit the enforcement of the circuit court’s arraignment order *279which requires a timely disclosure of any confidential informant that will be called by the State in its case in chief in the underlying criminal prosecutions. The State contends that the circuit court exceeded its legitimate powers in ordering…