Ex Parte National Ass'n for Advance. of Col. People

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is a petition to compel respondent, the Honorable Walter B. Jones, Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, to recuse himself in a certain proceeding styled The State of Alabama, ex rel. John Patterson, as Attorney General of the State of Alabama v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a Corp., now pending in his court.

The respondent Judge waived issuance of the rule nisi, demurred to the petition and also filed an answer thereto. The petitioner thereafter filed a certain pleading purporting to be a replication to the respondent’s answer. The…