Hobson v. Curtis

MONTGOMERY, Chief Justice.

Leffa Ernest Hobson is asking this Court to prohibit the Honorable L. R. Curtis, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, from trying the case of the Commonwealth v. Leffa Ernest Hobson which has been set for December 8, 1959.

Petitioner was arrested on September 5, 1959, and charged with having committed an abortion. While this charge was pending in the Louisville Police Court, awaiting an examining trial, the grand jury of Jefferson County returned the indictment on which petitioner is to be tried. It is contended that the anticipated action in the Jefferson Circuit Court…