In Re Shoup

By the Court.

The petitioner, counsel for a public transportation system, a defendant in a pending neg ligence action, seeks by a proceeding in habeas corpus in this court to be released from technical custody under a commitment by a notary public for failure to comply with a subpoena duces tecum in refusing to produce certain records for use in the taking of a deposition before such notary.

The records which the plaintiff in the negligence case seeks to have produced consist of slips of paper containing the names of witnesses procured by an employee of the transportation system after the…