State Ex Rel. Randolph v. Hancock Circuit Court

— This original action was brought by the relator for a writ of mandate to issue ordering respondents to strike and expunge from the record a certain petition for rehearing on a demurrer previously ruled upon by the respondent court, and to grant relator’s motion for judgment. We issued the temporary writ of mandate in the alternative on October 10,1961.

The chronological sequence of the actions in the lower court is as follows:

On March 14, 1960, relator filed an amended petition for a writ of error coram nobis, in the Hancock Circuit Court, in the cause of State of Indiana v. Jack Randolph,…