State Ex Rel. La Russa v. Himes

Relators were informed against in Hills-borough County for violating the lottery laws, Section 7667, Compiled General Laws of 1927. They filed their suggestion for writ of prohibition in this Court seeking to disqualify respondent to sit in the trial of their case. The affidavit of disqualification related a series of circumstances transpiring in 1936, 1938 and 1940, the latter circumstance being that while respondent was running for reelection as judge of the criminal court, he made thevfollowing statement to a public gathering in Hillsborough County, May 7, 1940: “The people are shot down…