Angarita v. Court of Special Sessions

The petitioner seeks an order in the nature of a writ of prohibition against the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions to prevent them from continuing with certain proceed*13ings now pending in that court. In those proceedings petitioner is charged with being the father of two children borne by the complainant, and the object of the proceeding is to determine that issue and make the disposition called for. The grounds advanced for this court to restrain the Court of Special Sessions is that that court lacks jurisdiction.

The established facts are that the petitioner (defendant in Special…