Pinkerton v. Farr

Caplan, Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, the relators, Clayton Bill Pinkerton, Charles Pinkerton and George Miller, seek to prohibit P. Douglass Farr, Judge of the Circuit Court of Pleasants County, the respondent, from proceeding with the trial on an indictment charging the relators with a violation under Chapter 61, Article 6, Section 7, of the West Virginia Code of 1931, as amended, sometimes referred to as the Red Men’s Act.

On January 13, 1975 the grand jury serving the Circuit Court of Pleasants County returned a two-count indictment, charging in the first count that…