State ex rel. Main v. District Court of Fifth Judicial District

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an original proceeding wherein relator William T. Main petitions for a writ of supervisory control or other appropriate writ seeking in effect dismissal of an Information and a finding of acquittal by the district court of the fifth judicial district, county of Beaverhead.

The issues here arose out of the filing of an Information charging the crimes of rape and assault in the first degree. The Information was filed on March 2, 1971. Relator was represented by counsel who represented to the court that relator suffered from a…