LOSAVIO v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR TENTH JUD. DIST.

No. 25999.

512 P.2d 266 (1973)

J. E. LOSAVIO, Jr., District Attorney In and For the Tenth Judicial District of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the TENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, and the Honorable Matt J. Kikel, District Judge within and for the County of Pueblo, State of Colorado, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darol C. Biddle, Pueblo, for petitioner.

Kettelkamp & Vento, P. C., W. C. Kettelkamp, Jr., Pueblo, for respondents.


ERICKSON, Justice.

In a summary proceeding, the Honorable Matt J. Kikel found J. E. Losavio, the District Attorney for the Tenth Judicial District, to be in contempt of court, sentenced him to fifteen days in jail, and denied a request for a stay of execution. Thereafter, Losavio filed a Petition for a Writ of Prohibition in this Court seeking to prevent the district court from executing the contempt sentence. We issued a...

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