Lester v. Grant Circuit Court

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandate

to require the judge of the Grant Circuit Court to hear an alleged petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by petitioner in said court. There is no allegation that there has ever been any service of a copy of his pleadings in the Grant Circuit Court upon the Attorney General as required by § 49-1937, Burns’ 1933 (Supp.) (Acts 1945, ch. 3, §1, p. 7; Acts 1947, ch. 196, § 1). Petitioner has no action commenced in the Grant Circuit Court until this is done. State ex rel. Wadsworth v. Mead (1947), 225 Ind. 123, 73 N. E. 2d 53; State ex rel. Minton v. Parke…