PEOPLE EX REL. CASTLE v. DANIELS

No. 33693.

8 Ill.2d 43 (1956)

132 N.E.2d 507

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Latham Castle, Attorney General, Petitioner, v. HARRY C. DANIELS et al., Judges, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 19, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, (FRED G. LEACH, MURRAY F. MILNE, and ALBERT E. JENNER, JR., of counsel,) for petitioner.

SEARS AND SOLFISBURG, of Aurora, for respondents.


Writ awarded.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

By leave of this court, the Attorney General has filed an original petition for mandamus asking us to direct the respondents (judges of the circuit court of Kane County) to vacate an order of May 9, 1955, denying the motion of the Attorney General for a nolle prosequi in a certain criminal prosecution pending in that court. (People v. Lloyd C. Moody, No. 54-757.) The...

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