NORTON v. REESE

No. 8075.

417 P.2d 205 (1966)

76 N.M. 602

Merrill NORTON and Barton L. Ingraham, Petitioners, v. The Honorable George L. REESE, Jr., Judge of the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District of the State of New Mexico, Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

July 25, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Modrall, Seymour, Sperling, Roehl & Harris, Kenneth L. Harrigan, Albuquerque, for petitioners.

Patrick F. Hanagan, Dist. Atty., Roswell, Charles A. Feezer, Sp. Asst. Dist. Atty., Carlsbad, for respondent.


OPINION

NOBLE, Justice.

This is an original prohibition proceeding in the Supreme Court by Merrill Norton and Barton L. Ingraham seeking to prohibit the Honorable George L. Reese, Jr., Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, from presiding at the trial of a criminal contempt action against them.

Norton and Ingraham, attorneys at law, are charged by criminal information in Eddy County with having unlawfully and willfully impeded the orderly administration...

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