State Ex Rel. Koopman v. Waukesha Co. Ct. Judges

Defendant made application for the writ of prohibition in order to determine whether criminal proceedings could be instituted against him because he was over the age of eighteen at the time of his arrest, notwithstanding that he was under eighteen at the time of the alleged offenses. The state contends, however, that *495this issue cannot be reached because no basis has been established for the issuance of the writ.

The court is here faced with the traditional use of the writ of prohibition, which has been to keep an inferior court from acting outside its jurisdiction when there was no adequate…