Ford v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
PETITION for writ of mandate to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Wm. P. Lawlor, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Garret W. McEnerney, A. A. Moore, and Stanley Moore, for Petitioner. C. M. Fickert, District Attorney, and Fred L. Berry, Assistant District Attorney, for Respondents.
1Opinion of the CourtLennon, P. J.
This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandate directed to the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco and to Honorable William P. Lawlor, judge thereof, requiring and commanding the dismissal of fourteen indictments for felony pending against petitioner in said superior court since May 25, 1907, and which it is claimed were continued for trial from time to time for more than sixty days after the filing of said indictments without good cause and over the protest of the petitioner.
The petition for the writ was in the first instance presented to the supreme court of this…
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