State ex rel. Corbin 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 February 1966. We issued an alternative writ with a written decision to follow.

Real parties in interest herein are respondents Andrew Albert Hooker, Robert Raymond Dearborn and Joseph Ralph Melendrez, all defendants named in a criminal complaint charging unlawful possession of marijuana upon which a preliminary hearing was commenced on the 20th day of October 1965…