State ex rel. Goldstine v. Noble Circuit Court

Petitioner herein requests this court to appoint the Honorable Robert S. Baker, the Public Defender of Indiana, to act as amicus curiae in a case involving petitioner and which is now pending in the Noble Circuit Court and, further, to appoint a Special Judge to hear and determine such cause of action.

This court is without authority to appoint either an amicus curiae or a Special Judge as requested in the petition herein. Therefore, such petition must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction of the subject-matter.

Petition dismissed.

Note. — Reported in 171 N. E. 2d 823.