People v. District Court ex rel. Fourth Judicial District, County of El Paso

LEE, Justice.

In this original proceeding, we issued a rule to show cause why respondent district court should not be prohibited from issuing its order denying the People’s Motion to Vacate Juvenile Jury Trial and Order Transfer Hearing. We now discharge the rule.

On February 24, 1979, John Wyatt Johnson, a juvenile, was taken into custody for the alleged commission of acts which would have constituted first-degree assault if committed by an adult. At a detention hearing on February 26, 1979, the district attorney, citing Johnson’s juvenile and adult records in Florida, and the fact that he was…