State ex rel. Martin v. Judge of Twenty-Ninth District

Emile Martin was charged in an affidavit made before the respondent judge with violating certain provisions of Act 122 of 1921 (Ex. Sess.) relative to registration of voters. He was arrested, and a preliminary examination ordered before the said judge as a committing magistrate. On the day of the hearing Martin filed a motion to recuse the said judge, and ashed that he forthwith recuse himself or refer the motion to the judge of an adjoining district.

The grounds alleged in the motion for recusation were as follows:

‘‘That Leander H. Perez, district judge for the Twenty-Ninth judicial district…