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STATE v. STEVENS

No. 6106.

79 Ariz. 298 (1955)

288 P.2d 1077

STATE of Arizona, ex rel. Wm. P. MAHONEY, Jr., County Attorney of Maricopa County, Petitioner, v. Judge Henry S. STEVENS, acting as a Committing Magistrate, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

October 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. P. Mahoney, Jr., County Attorney of Maricopa County, Phoenix, for petitioner.

Charlie W. Clark and Roy R. Carson, of Phoenix, for respondent.

UDALL, Justice.

The County Attorney of Maricopa County instituted this original proceeding in certiorari for the purpose of testing whether the Honorable Henry S. Stevens, one of the judges of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for Maricopa County, while sitting as a committing magistrate, exceeded his jurisdiction in dismissing a criminal complaint then pending before him.

Being of the opinion the record presented a proper case for the issuance...

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