Opinion
No. 0-624.
Filed February 3, 1961.
Petitioner, Sam Goldstine, petitions the Supreme Court to appoint the Public Defender to act as amicus curiae in a pending case involving petitioner and also petitions for an appointment of a Special Judge to hear and determine the cause of action.
Petition dismissed.
Sam Goldstine, pro se.
Petitioner herein requests this court to appoint the Honorable Robert S. Baker, the Public Defender of Indiana, to act as amicus curiae in a case involving petitioner and which is now pending in the Noble Circuit Court and, further, to appoint a Special Judge to hear and determine such cause of action.
This court is without authority to appoint either an amicus curiae or a Special Judge as requested in the petition herein. Therefore, such petition must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction of the subject-matter.
Petition dismissed.
NOTE. — Reported in 171 N.E.2d 823.