Gray v. District Court of Ninth Judicial District
Supreme Court of Colorado
Original Proceeding in Certiorari. Certiorari by John L. Gray to review the action of the district court of the ninth, judicial district and the Honorable John T. Shumate, judge thereof, P. W. Adams, sheriff, and Charles "W. Taylor, and praying for a writ of prohibition against the appointment of a special prosecutor to act as district attorney in place of petitioner, who was alleged to be prejudiced. Decision en banc, all the justices concurring.
1Per curiam
By the petition and supplemental petition it appears that the petitioner was, at the time the acts complained of were committed, the duly elected, qualified and acting district attorney within and for the ninth judicial district; that on the 19th day of November, 1904, the grand jury returned three certain indictments; that the defendants named in the indictments were arraigned and entered pleas of not guilty; that on the 9th day of December the petitioner caused to be entered a plea of nolle prosequi in each of said causes; that thereafter the respondent, the judge of the district court of…
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