Anderson v. Johnson

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Ray Anderson, in this original action, seeks an order prohibiting the Honorable J. B. Johnson, Judge of the Whitley Circuit Court, from trying him on an indictment for grand larceny.

The petitioner states that during the course of his trial in September, 1947, on a charge of murder, he had testified that immediately before or at the time of the homicide he had stolen a cow belonging to Charley Crowley; that he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment therefor; and that after his release from prison on parol nine years later the present indictment was…