Ex Parte Brandon

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a petition for the writ of mandamus to Judge George Lewis Bailes, as a Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, to require-him: (1) To vacate and annul an order entered by him on May 4, 1942, which order purports to grant to the City of Birmingham a new trial in the case of the City of Birmingham v. Ethel Brandon, a-nd (2) to discharge the said Ethel Brandon from further prosecution.

The petitioner was convicted in the Recorder's Court of the City of Birmingham of “disorderly conduct” in violation of an ordinance of said city. She appealed to the Circuit Court of the Tenth…