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REED v. ALLEN

No. 1878.

153 A.2d 74 (1959)

Frederick M. REED, as Attorney General of the State of Vermont, v. O. Fay ALLEN, Jr., Justice of the Peace, Henry F. Black and Peter P. Plante, as Attorneys for one Robert O. Welch, and Richard E. Davis, as Attorney for one Frank Carpenter.

Supreme Court of Vermont. Washington.

June 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick M. Reed, Atty. Gen., pro se.

Henry F. Black and Peter P. Plante, White River Junction, and Richard E. Davis, Barre, pro se.

Before HULBURD, C. J., and HOLDEN, SHANGRAW, BARNEY and SMITH, JJ.

HULBURD, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition brought to this Court by Frederick M. Reed as Attorney General of the State of Vermont whereby he seeks to restrain the petitionees from taking depositions for use in criminal cases under No. 217 of the Acts of 1957.

On November 18, 1958, a Grand Jury in Orange County Court returned indictments against Robert O. Welch and Frank Carpenter, charging each with the first degree murder of one...

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