Taustine v. Fleig

MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment which granted a writ of prohibition preventing the Police Judge of the City of Louisville from hearing and disposing of a criminal charge in the Louisville Police Court on the ground that jurisdiction was lacking because the area where the alleged offense had occurred had not been annexed to the City of Louisville. Appellee, Carl Fleig, was arrested for violating KRS 436.450 (bookmaking) in an area duly annexed by the City of Louisville (January 12, 1961) by enactment of a valid annexation ordinance. Because a remonstrance suit…