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POWELL v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 24522.

48 Cal.2d 704 (1957)

312 P.2d 698

JOHN DYSON POWELL, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 21, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladys Towles Root, Eugene V. McPherson and Joseph A. Armstrong for Petitioner.

William B. McKesson, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Jere J. Sullivan, Fred N. Whichello and Lewis Watnick, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

Petitioner seeks by prohibition to restrain respondent court from proceeding with the trial of petitioner under an indictment charging him with the embezzlement of public funds. [1] Although a stay of proceedings granted on the order to show cause issued by the District Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Two, when the petition for the writ was before that court, was automatically continued in effect upon the granting of a...

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