State v. Superior Court

McFarland, Justice:

Robert K. Corbin, County Attorney, Maricopa County, filed a petition for a writ of prohibition against Val A. Cordova, Judge of the Superior Court, Maricopa County. The same came on for hearing on the 7th day of December 1965. We issued a peremptory writ with a written decision to follow. The proceeding which was ordered prohibited was that part of the Order of 1 December 1965 of the Honorable Val A. Cordova, criminal cause numbered 47558 (State of Ariz. v. Ervin Faye Stewart, in which defendant was charged with the crime of murder), in the Superior Court of the State of…