State Ex Rel. Distenfeld v. Neelen

The writ of prohibition which was dismissed in the circuit court was addressed to four individuals : The assistant city attorney of Milwaukee, the mayor of Milwaukee, the president of the Milwaukee common council, and the judge of the district court of Milwaukee county. The petition for the writ asked that the defendants be restrained from acting in concert to make public before a gathering, not in court, the testimony, which the petitioner had given in the John Doe proceeding on promise of immunity and secrecy, because he neither was appearing as a witness before the gathering so that the…