Commonwealth v. Gordon

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson—

'Granting writ of prohibition.

Can a circuit judge presiding over a court -of common pleas of a circuit court having seven judges, on a writ of habeas corpus, reduce the bail fixed by another circuit-judge presiding over the criminal division of said circuit court in whose court the prisoner had been indicted and -before whom the case stands for trial, is the question involved in this proceeding instituted in this court.

The question arose in this way: R. S. Anders-on was 'indicted in the J effersoa circuit court for several different crimes,…