State ex rel. Sheehan v. Reynolds

This is an original application in this court for a writ of mandamus. The respondents are the Honorable W. A. Reynolds, judge of the superior court of Lewis county, and the Honorable R. H. Back, judge of the superior court of Clarke county. The facts as shown by the affidavit in support of the petition for the writ which are not controverted, and the facts which are shown by the returns of the respondents to the alternative writ which are not denied, may be summarized as follows:

Elmer Smith and Mike Sheehan, together with other defendants, had been charged by information, by the prosecuting…