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DOWNING v. DAVIS

No. 234.

34 F.Supp. 872 (1940)

DOWNING v. DAVIS et al.

District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 27, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bidwell Adam, of Gulfport, Miss., and R. B. Terry, of Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff.

Hugh Gillespie, Dist. Atty., of Raymond, Miss., for defendants.

MIZE, District Judge.

This is a petition filed by the plaintiff asking for a writ of prohibition against a Justice of the Peace and Constable in Mississippi, seeking to prohibit the Justice of the Peace from issuing search warrants and the Constable from serving them outside his own district. The defendants have interposed a motion to dismiss.

The motion of the defendants is well taken. The writ of prohibition cannot...

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