State Ex Rel. J. B. McCutchan v. Cooley

Prohibition. Relator seeks to have this court prohibit Hon. James A. Cooley, Special Judge of the Circuit Court of Scotland County, from proceeding with the trial of five criminal cases pending in said court, wherein relator as director of a bank is charged with assenting to receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent.

The prosecuting attorney, on July 1, 1927, filed five complaints with a justice of the peace of Scotland County covering the identical charges set forth in the informations filed in the circuit court. Relator was accorded preliminary examinations before a justice on…