State Ex Rel. Waters v. Lackey

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition brought by Honorable Jerome J. Waters, warden of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma, to prohibit the Honorable W. A. Lackey, Judge of the district court of Pittsburg county, Oklahoma, for usurping and exercising unauthorized jurisdiction. Ray v. Stevenson, 71 Okla. Cr. 339, 111 P. 2d 824; Moss v. Arnold, 63 Okla. Cr. 343, 75 P. 2d 491; State ex rel. Burford v. Sullivan, 86 Okla. Cr. 364, 193 P. 2d 594, holding that the writ of prohibition, though not provided for by the Constitution or any statutory provision, is an extraordinary…