HAWKINS v. McKESSON

Docket No. 27208.

221 Cal.App.2d 344 (1963)

34 Cal. Rptr. 427

COSBY HAWKINS, Petitioner, v. WILLIAM B. McKESSON, as District Attorney of Los Angeles County, Repondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

October 18, 1963


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cosby Hawkins, in pro. per., for Petitioner.

William B. McKesson, District Attorney, in pro. per., Harry Wood and Harry B. Sondheim, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


BURKE, P.J.

[1] Petitioner, being then imprisoned in the Federal Prison at McNeil Island, Washington, petitioned this court for a writ of mandamus to compel respondent District Attorney of Los Angeles County to cause petitioner to be brought to trial, or, in the alternative, to dismiss a criminal proceeding allegedly pending against him in the Municipal Court of the Los Angeles Judicial District, and further...

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