State Ex Rel. Grand Jury Investigation in Affairs of Caledonia v. County Court of Racine County

The petitioner-appellant has appealed from an order of the circuit court quashing a petition for an alternative writ of prohibition. 1 Such writ was sought to prohibit the respondent, who presided over a Racine county grand jury investigation into alleged irregularities and misconduct in public office by officials of the town of Caledonia, from refusing to release and make public a report of the grand jury issued the same time as the grand jury returned indictments against three individuals. The three individuals named in the indictment have now been tried and the grand jury was discharged in…