Nichols v. Houghton Circuit Judge

An order having been made that the respondent, circuit judge presiding in the twelfth judicial circuit, show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue to compel him to set aside and vacate an order made by him in a cause recently pending before him in the circuit court for the county of Houghton entitled the “People of the State of Michigan v. James Cooper, Arthur Davis, William Groff, and Edward Polkinghorne,” wherein said respondent by said order, dated the 19th day of January, 1915, directed that the verdict and judgment finding the above-named defendants guilty of the *656crime…