State Ex Rel. Meloy v. Barger

This matter is before us upon a petition of relator to mandate respondent judge to assume and exercise full jurisdiction and conduct all proceedings in a certain matter pending in the Shelby Circuit Court as Cause No. 4852, upon the criminal docket of said court entitled: State of Indiana v. Robert Austin Watts, until said cause is finally disposed of or until such time as a valid change shall be taken and perfected from said judge or from said county in said cause according to law.

A history of the so-called Watts case is set out in the petition for mandate and it thus appears that Watts was…