Hoff v. Eighth Judicial District Court

*109OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, C. J.:

This is an original proceeding in certiorari which tests the jurisdiction of the respondent judge of the respondent district court to make sundry orders on arraignment of the petitioner in a criminal proceeding against him in said court, over the objections of petitioner, on the ground that the respondent judge, Honorable George Marshall, was the father of Edward G. Marshall, district attorney of Clark County, attorney for the State of Nevada.

We hold that the respondent judge was disqualified under the provisions of our applicable statute, and that the…