State Ex Rel. Garvin v. Dearborn Circuit Court

Relator brought this original action seeking a writ of mandate commanding the Dearborn Circuit Court and The Honorable William C. Runyon, special judge, to discharge him or show cause why such should not be done.

The events leading to this original action are as follows:

*632Relator was convicted of the crime of being an accessory after the fact of armed robbery; that conviction was appealed to this Court resulting in the granting of a new trial. See Garvin v. State (1970), 255 Ind. 215, 263 N. E. 2d 371, 23 Ind. Dec. 398.

On December 11, 1970, relator was returned to the Ripley Circuit Court to…