Newbill v. Hendricks

McDonough, justice.

On writ of prohibition, plaintiff seeks to restrain the defendant District Judge from taking any further action in the case of State of Utah v. LeRoy Newbill, except to quash the complaint and to dismiss the action for want of jurisdiction on the part of the justice of the peace who pronounced sentence.

According to the stipulation of facts, plaintiff was arrested in Ogden on July 24, 1948, and lodged in the county jail. On July 26, 1948, plaintiff was taken to the north courtroom on the 5th floor of the City & County Building in Ogden, before Alfred Gladwell, who is a…