People Ex Rel. Swanson v. Kelly

Pursuant to leave granted by this court, an original petition for a writ of mandamus was filed herein in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of Oscar E. Carlstrom, then Attorney General, and John A. Swanson, then State’s attorney of Cook county. The petition prays for a writ commanding James J. Kelly, one of the judges of the superior court of Cook county and ex-officio judge of the criminal court of that county, to expunge from the records of the criminal court an order entered in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging Oliver A. Berg and Hymie Dickholtz from the…