State Ex Rel. Wilson v. Stafford

On July 11th, 1930, Baynard Wilson filed in the Circuit Court for Kent County a petition for a writ of certiorari to be issued, directing that Olin B. Stafford, a justice of the peace of that county, produce his record of the criminal prosecution and judgment against the petitioner in June, 1930. The petition embodied the docket entries, which, omitting the titling, were as follows:

“Before Olin B. Stafford, Justice of the Peace, upon oath and aformation rec’d, J. Thomas Uadaway, who charges Baynard Wilson-with on the 9th day of April, 1930, in the 3rd Election District of Kent County, d. with…