Opinion
No. 44098.
June 15, 1973.
Prohibition — writ made absolute — decision rendered without opinion.
Prohibition in this court upon the petition of James Haaf to restrain the Clay County District Court, James A. Preece, Judge, from trying said petitioner on a charge of bribery. Writ made absolute.
Thomson, Wylde, Nordby, Friedberg Rapoport and Jack S. Nordby, for petitioner.
Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, John Burns, County Attorney, Katz, Taube, Lange Frommelt, and Emanuel Z. Kopstein, for respondent.
Considered en banc.
The alternative writ of prohibition issued by this court in the above entitled matter on December 8, 1972, is herewith made absolute. Accordingly, the prosecution of James Haaf, arising out of an indictment dated January 5, 1972, charging him with committing the crime of bribery on November 9, 1970, in violation of Minn. St. 609.42, subd. 1(1), is permanently enjoined.
Because the court is divided on the reasons for reaching its conclusion, no opinion accompanies its decision.
Writ of prohibition made absolute.