State ex rel. Segura v. Judge of the Twenty-First Judicial District

The opinion of tlie Court- was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This is an application for a prohibition to prevent tlie defendant from trying a cause, in which he is recused as being personally interested.

Tlie complaint is that, after the plea of recusation was died, the judge refused to refer the trial thereof to'another judge, acting in his place; that he passed upon it himself and overruled it; that he ought *254not to have tried tlie same and that he is incompetent to sit on the merits of the cause.

The judge returns and argues elaborately to show that the recusation is not well founded and that he…