STATE EX REL. FURLONG v. WAUKESHA COUNTY COURT

No. 264.

47 Wis.2d 515 (1970)

177 N.W.2d 333

STATE EX REL. FURLONG, Respondent, v. WAUKESHA COUNTY COURT and others, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 5, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants the cause was argued by Betty R. Brown, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief were Robert W. Warren, attorney general, and Roger P. Murphy, district attorney of Waukesha county.

For the respondent there was a brief by Lowry, Hunter & Tikalsky of Waukesha, and oral argument by Scott V. Lowry.


WILKIE, J.

I. Prohibition.

The first issue confronting this court is whether prohibition in the circuit court was the proper method for defendant to test the criminal action against him in the county court.

We have considered this very issue in a number of recent decisions.3 "... Prohibition will not lie whenever habeas corpus or other adequate remedy is available."4

Defendant...

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