Wedding v. Lair

HILL, Judge.

This original action was filed in this court on February 23, 1966, seeking to prohibit the respondent from enforcing an order entered in the Harrison Circuit Court February 4, 1966, appointing petitioner Honorable John Y. Brown attorney for Nimrod Wedding, Jr., in a criminal case charging Wedding with willful murder.

A brief history of the case leading to this petition may be appropriate. Nimrod Wedding, Jr., was tried and convicted in November 1961 in the Harrison Circuit Court, and his penalty was fixed at death. His appointed counsel on the trial consisted of practically all of…