Jenkins v. Holbert

MILLIKEN, Justice.

This is a petition to prohibit the Honorable J. Howard Holbert, Judge of the Hardin Circuit Court, from enforcing a contempt order against Harold Jenkins, Deputy Sheriff of Hardin County, for refusal to reveal the name of a confidential informant.

Sometime between November 1st and November 2nd, 1970, a tractor was stolen from the Dixie Farm Store in Elizabeth-town, Kentucky. On November 26, 1970, the petitioner, Harold Jenkins, caused a search warrant to be issued by the Hardin Quarterly Court for a search of the Harvey “Monk” Cardin property on the Sonora Nolin Road in…