BADT, Justice.
Petitioners seek a writ of prohibition to prohibit the respondent court from proceeding with the trial of a criminal charge against petitioners. The petition attacks the constitutionality of our statute defining as first degree murder, with the death penalty, the death of a human being caused by an escape or attempted escape of persons lawfully imprisoned in the state prison. The specific points of this attack are dealt with in this opinion, in which...
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