WATSON v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR FOURTH JUD.

No. 79SA111.

604 P.2d 1165 (1980)

Arthur Jerome WATSON, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT and the Honorable William Calvert, District Court Judge, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

January 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Denver, Michael Wood, Deputy State Public Defender, Colorado Springs, for petitioner.

Robert L. Russel, Dist. Atty., Fourth Judicial Dist., Charles Yett, Deputy Dist. Atty., Colorado Springs, for respondents.


ERICKSON, Justice.

This is an original proceeding which is buttressed by only a skeleton record. The petitioner, Arthur Jerome Watson, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent district court from forcing him to go to trial immediately after a scheduled hearing on his counsel's motion to withdraw. Petitioner also seeks a writ of mandamus requiring the trial court to allow his counsel to withdraw because of a...

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