State Ex Rel. James v. Superior Court

Relators filed an original application for a writ of review, to review the action of the respondent judge in denying motions to dismiss prosecutions against them because not brought to trial within sixty days. The respondent judge filed his return in response to the writ issued out of this court, and the matter is now before us for review.

The prosecuting attorney for King county, on August 10, 1948, filed substantially identical informations against each of the relators, charging them respectively with gross misdemeanors in that they, before a joint legislative “fact finding committee on…