Murphy v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Joseph H. Murphy, Jr. from an interlocutory *52order denying the defendant’s motion to reconsider two orders entered by a prior magistrate in the case, to wit: (a) an arrest warrant issued against the defendant, and (b) a bail bond on two grand theft charges stated in the warrant in the amount of $500,000 and $100,000 respectively. The prior magistrate granted a defense motion to disqualify himself after issuing these orders, and the present magistrate was substituted therefor; no information has been filed in the case. We treat the appeal as a petition for a…