Ratliff v. Stephenson

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Thomas B. Ratliff, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the 35th District of Kentucky, invokes the original jurisdiction of this court seeking an order against Honorable James B. Stephenson, Judge of the Pike Circuit Court, Division No. 1, prohibiting him from utilizing the grand jury and petit juries in criminal investigations and trials at the present session of the court. By an order heretofore issued, the relief sought has been denied; this opinion will state the reasons for that ruling.

The petitioner alleges, and the respondent admits, that seventy-seven names were drawn by…