Jim Pennywell v. Honorable J. L. McCarrey Jr.

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

This matter is before us on our order to show cause why a writ of prohibition and a writ of mandamus should not issue, and upon respondent’s return thereto.

The petitioner, Jim Pennywell, is presently in danger of being apprehended and imprisoned under a bench warrant authorized to be issued by the District Court for the District of Alaska, Third Division. Asserting that the named district court is without jurisdiction in the matter, Pennywell seeks in this proceeding to prohibit respondent, Honorable J. L. McCarrey, Jr., judge of that court, from the further exercise of…