Dickerson v. Grand Jury of Washoe County

*114OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

This is an original proceeding for a writ of prohibition to stop further inquiry by the Washoe County Grand Jury into the operations of the Nevada State Hospital. The petitioner suggests that the permissive inquisitorial powers expressed by NRS 172.300(2) do not allow a county grand jury to inquire into the affairs of a state agency.1 His argument is bottomed on two propositions: first, that NRS 6.135(1) (sometimes referred to as the state grand jury statute) reveals a legislative intention that state affairs be investigated by a grand jury impaneled under…