State Ex Rel. Curtis v. Crow

FINCH, Senior Judge.

This action in prohibition arises out of discovery proceedings by Springfield Newspapers, Inc., in a libel action instituted against it by the relator herein. Relator seeks to prohibit respondent judge from enforcing a portion of an order that the prosecuting attorney of Greene County produce his files concerning two earlier cases involving relator. We now make permanent the provisional rule in prohibition previously entered.

Relator’s petition in his libel suit is stated in eleven counts. Each count relates to a separate statement appearing in the newspaper concerning…