State v. Phelps

LaPRADE, Justice.

On ex parte petition of the State of Arizona an alternative writ of mandamus was issued out of this court directing the respondent, the Honorable M. T. Phelps, as Judge of the Superior Court of Maricopa County, to forthwith proceed with the trial in criminal cause No. 19281 in the Superior Court of Maricopa County, wherein the state was plaintiff and G. C. Findley was defendant, or show cause why he should not do so.

The petition for the writ disclosed that Findley had been adjudged guilty in the police court of the City of Phoenix of vi olating section 68a, Ordinance 2570 of…