People Ex Rel. Crowe v. Williams

Pursuant to leave granted, there was filed in this court an original petition in the name of the People of the State, on the relation of Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, and Robert E. Crowe, the State’s attorney of Cook county, praying for the issuance of a writ of mandamus commanding Charles A. Williams, one of the judges of the superior court of Cook county, to expunge from the records of that court an order discharging Joseph Chapman from the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet. It is set forth in the petition that Chapman was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for…