People Ex Rel. Kerner v. McKinley

On leave, there was filed at a preceding term of this court, a petition for writ of mandamus in the name of the People on the relation of the Attorney General, seeking a writ commanding the respondent, as judge of the criminal court of Cook county, to expunge from his records an order entered in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging Raymond Scott from the custody of the warden of the penitentiary at Joliet. The title of the case heard by respondent was “People ex rel. Scott vs. Joseph E. Ragen, Warden.” To respondent’s answer to the petition a motion to strike was filed, thus making up a…