SHUFORD v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30291.

11 Cal.3d 903 (1974)

523 P.2d 641

114 Cal. Rptr. 601

FRANK NORRIS SHUFORD, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 3, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Theodore A. Johnson for Petitioner.

Cecil Hicks, District Attorney, Michael R. Capizzi, Assistant District Attorney, and Oretta D. Sears, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent and for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

McCOMB, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain respondent court from retrying him in a criminal prosecution until Orange County furnishes him a free transcript of his first trial, which ended with a hung jury. We have concluded that the writ should issue.

Facts: Petitioner is charged with burglary, murder, and assault with a deadly weapon and further charged with the use of a firearm in violation...

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