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JENKINS v. HOLBERT

485 S.W.2d 238 (1972)

Harold JENKINS, Deputy Sheriff of Hardin County, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Petitioner, v. Honorable J. Howard HOLBERT, Judge, Hardin Circuit Court, 9th Judicial District, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Hubbard, Elizabethtown, Frank A. Logan, Louisville, for petitioner.

MILLIKEN, Justice.

This is a petition to prohibit the Honorable J. Howard Holbert, Judge of the Hardin Circuit Court, from enforcing a contempt order against Harold Jenkins, Deputy Sheriff of Hardin County, for refusal to reveal the name of a confidential informant.

Sometime between November 1st and November 2nd, 1970, a tractor was stolen from the Dixie Farm Store in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. On November 26, 1970, the petitioner, Harold Jenkins, caused a search...

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