State ex rel. Woodahl v. District Court of the First Judicial District of Montana ex rel. County of Lewis

1 MR. JUSTICE HASWELL

delivered the Opinion of the IJourt.

I The attorney general’s application to this Court for supervisory control or other appropriate relief presents but a lingle legal issue; whether the attorney general, under the ¡acts and circumstances of this case, has the power to initiate criminal felony prosecution in the district court independent : the county attorney.

The district court held the attorney general has no such gal power. We agree.

*114The facts of this ease are not complex. The attorney general applied to the district court of Lewis and Clark County, the Hon. Nat Allen,…