Schaaf v. State

This cause was instituted against the appellant by the return of an indictment in three counts by the grand jury of Lake County, Indiana. The defendant’s motion- to quash each count of the indictment was sustained as to counts one and two and overruled as to the third count. The appellant then appeared in open court, waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty. Thereafter, the venue of the cause was changed to the Newton Circuit Court on the appellant’s motion.

On November 80, 1942, one Charles W. Gannon, who had been elected prosecutor of said Lake County but whose term of office would not…