Dial v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Denying Writ of Prohibition.

This is an original proceeding by petition filed in this Court, in which plaintiff J. M. Dial asks a writ of prohibition to restrain the defendant J. W. Cammack, Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, from presiding as special judge in the trial of said Dial upon a charge of subornation of perjury in the Kenton Circuit Court.

Kenton County comprises the Sixteenth Judicial District of the State, and the Kenton Circuit Court is a court of continuous session, composed of two divisions entitled the Criminal, Common Law and Equity…