State Ex Rel. Smith v. Gray

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to be directed to Honorable DeWitt T. Gray, as Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, prohibiting him from assuming jurisdiction to try a criminal cause pending in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit for Seminole County, in which the State of Florida is plaintiff and Forrest Lake and A. R. I£ey are defendants.

The Governor of Florida, by executive order dated January 31, A. D. 1928, designated and appointed the Honorable DeWitt T. Gray, Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, to proceed to Sanford, in the…