People ex rel. Fleming v. Mayer

The relator, subpoenaed as a witness in a proceeding entitled as a prosecution against Charles E. Murphy and others, and purporting to have been instituted on an information laid with the magistrate, makes this application for an alternative writ of prohibition, the main ground of the motion being, as alleged, that the information laid be*290fore the magistrate did not charge the defendants with any specified crime.

Upon snch a motion as this the inquiry is not whether the proceedings assailed are obviously invalid, beyond the possibility of question. No final prohibition is asked, but permission…