State v. Stevens

UDALL, Justice.

The County Attorney of Maricopa County instituted this original proceeding in certiorari for the purpose of testing whether the Honorable Henry S. Stevens, one of the judges of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for Maricopa County, while sitting as a committing magistrate, exceeded his jurisdiction in dismissing a criminal complaint then pending before him.

Being of the opinion the record presented a proper case for the issuance of a writ of certiorari we granted the writ and from the return thereon it now appears that a criminal complaint in cause No. 27296 was…