Commonwealth ex rel. Breckinridge v. Wise

BIRD, Chief Justice.

The Commonwealth has asked this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and prohibit William J. Wise, Commonwealth’s Attorney of the Seventeenth Judicial District, from performing certain duties relating to the Campbell County Grand Jury. It is charged that the Commonwealth’s Attorney, along with divers others, is a subject of the jury’s investigation and that he should therefore be prohibited from serving with that body during its investigation of matters involving him.

We had a similar factual situation in Northcutt v. Howard, 279 Ky. 219, 130 S.W.2d 70, 71, in which…