Nelson v. Superior Court

By mandamus petitioner seeks an order of this court commanding respondent superior court to grant his motion previously made in said court to set aside an information charging him with the crime of robbery. The sole ground for said motion both in the respondent court and here is that at the preliminary hearing of petitioner on said charge he “was not properly advised of his constitutional rights.”

The petition alleges that at the preliminary examination the committing magistrate purported to inform petitioner of his constitutional rights including the right to aid of counsel but that said…