Janklow v. Erickson

WOLLMAN, Justice.

Upon application by the Attorney General, we issued an alternative writ of prohibition commanding respondent, Honorable Donald E. Erickson, one of the circuit judges of the First Judicial Circuit, to desist and refrain from taking any further action with respect to an order that he had entered that directed Don Gromer, an agent of the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, to deliver certain materials to the attorney for one Armand Max (defendant), who had been charged with the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon.

A preliminary hearing on the above described…