State Ex Rel. Hale v. Marion County Municipal Court

A temporary writ of mandate was issued by this court on application of relator, which directed the respondent to grant relator’s application for change of judge in three separately filed criminal charges pending in that court and growing out of the same offense. The charges were public intoxication, reckless driving, and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, the latter being a second offense and therefore a felony (Acts 1939, ch. 48, §52, p. 289), (§47-2001 (b), Burns’ 1952 Repl.). The respondent sustained the motion and made the appropriate record for…