State ex rel. Gearhart v. Murray

On June 23, 1959, the respondent Jack Murray, as Judge of the Starke Circuit Court, filed an information in the Starke Circuit Court addressed to Jerome Gearhart for his removal from the County Board of Public Welfare pursuant to Acts 1959, ch. 373, §1, p. 999, being §52-1118, Burns’ 1951 Repl. (1959 Supp.) and notice was issued accordingly.

The relator Gearhart appeared in person and by his attorney on the 29th day of June, 1959, and filed an affidavit for a change of venue from the judge. The motion was overruled. However, on July 3, 1959, the respondent disqualified himself as judge in said…