State v. Katsoulis

ERICKSTAD, Judge.

By information dated October 10, 1966, the defendant, George Katsoulis, was charged with having committed the crime of murder in the second degree. On being informed that Mr. Katsoulis was without funds to employ an attorney, the presiding judge, the Honorable Harold M. Hager, appointed Edward C. Gillig as Mr. Katsou-lis’s attorney.

On October 13 Mr. Katsoulis filed an affidavit of prejudice in which he alleged that he had reason to believe that he could not have a fair and impartial trial before Judge Hager, and, as a result thereof, the Supreme Court designated the Honorable…