Idaho Galena Mining Co. v. Judge of the District Court

The plaintiff seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain a district judge from enforcing an order requiring the plaintiff herein to produce its books, letters, files, etc., for the inspection of one Cosgrove, defendant in a criminal proceeding in Shoshone county.

The record discloses the following situation:

One Cosgrove was, after a preliminary examination, held for the district court to answer on a charge of criminal libel for utterances made with regard to one Kingsbury. After such preliminary hearing but before an information was filed, Cosgrove, by affidavit, set forth that in order to…