State Ex Rel. Berry, Etc. v. Beecher, Etc.

This is an original action, growing out of a criminal prosecution by affidavit of one Jack William Martin in the Vigo Circuit Court on two counts charging assault and battery on a child, being cause No. 19822 on the dockets of the Vigo Circuit Court.

The relator sought a temporary writ of mandate and prohibition against the defendant Samuel E. Beecher, Jr., as Special Judge, requiring him to stay the proceedings in said cause, to expunge from the record all entries made since March 1, 1960, to prohibit him from making any further entries other than to sustain the relator’s motion for a change…