MARFISI v. FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

No. 5899.

456 P.2d 443 (1969)

P. Michael MARFISI, Attorney at law, of the firm of Vaughan, Hull, McDaniel & Marfisi, Petitioner, v. FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada and the Honorable George F. Wright, Judge thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

July 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vaughan, Hull, McDaniel & Marfisi, Elko, for petitioner.

Mark C. Scott, Jr., Dist. Atty., Elko, for respondents.


OPINION

BATJER, Justice.

The petitioner, P. Michael Marfisi, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent court and judge from proceeding with a criminal action on the ground that 1969 Statutes of Nevada, Chapter 251, precludes the petitioner, who is the assistant city attorney of the city of Elko, Nevada, from continuing to defend Leon Harley Anderson, an indigent, charged with the crime of murder.

Marfisi was appointed as counsel by the...

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