Dailey v. Superior Court

One Durrant was upon trial in the city of San Francisco, charged with murder, and, while the jury was being impaneled, the petitioner, Dailey, advertised by posters and newspapers that he would produce in a certain theater in said city of San Francisco a play entitled “ The Crime of a Century.” Thereupon, Durrant presented an affidavit to the court wherein his trial was pending, setting forth that said play was based upon the facts of his case, as established at the preliminary examination and the coroner’s inquest, and that the production of said play during the progress of his trial would…