Defazio v. Oneida County Court

There are five of these applications, but as the questions in all of them are the same, they will be considered in one memorandum. In each of these cases an alternative prohibition order was granted by the Supreme Court directing the Oneida county judge and Frederick H. Hazard, Oneida county judge, to desist and refrain from any proceedings in, upon or in respect to the trial of the petitioners respectively on the indictments referred to in the respective petitions until the further direction of the Supreme Court, and to show cause why said County Court and judge should not be absolutely…