Hill v. Wittmeier

The writ of prohibition is an extraordinary writ, and is only issued when the parties seeking it are without other adequate means of redress for the wrong about to be inflicted by the act of the inferior tribunal.

In Atkins v. Siddons, 66 Ala. 453, in speaking of this writ, the court said:

“It can never be invoked to prevent 'proceedings which are purely ministerial ini tbeir nature, but only those which are of a judicial character. The issue of an execution by a justice of the peace is a ministerial, not a judicial, act; and the writ of prohibition will not, therefore, lie to prevent its…