State v. Coleman

This petition for a writ of certiorari was brought by the state against the district court of the first judicial district, whereof Robert M. Franklin, Esq., is justice, and a citation was issued to one Raymond Coleman, the defendant in a criminal case pending in that court. The writ was issued in accordance with the petition, and commanded the production of a certain record wherein the said district court ordered the return to Coleman of a dredge now in the possession of the department of state police of this state.

The petition alleges that Coleman is a defendant in a complaint and warrant…