Ford

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandate directed to the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco and to Honorable William P. Lawlor, judge thereof, requiring and commanding the dismissal of fourteen indictments for felony pending against petitioner in said superior court since May 25, 1907, and which it is claimed were continued for trial from time to time for more than sixty days after the filing of said indictments without good cause and over the protest of the petitioner.

The petition for the writ was in the first instance presented to the supreme court of this state, and by that court transferred to this court for hearing and determination.

On July 16, 1911, an alternative writ of mandate issued out of this court directed to respondents, requiring the dismissal of said indictments, or that cause be shown here on July 24th following why the same had not been dismissed. On the last-named day the said matter came on for hearing, and after argument hy the respective counsel for the petitioner and respondents, the cause was submitted for decision upon the facts stated in the petition and respondents’ return to the alternative writ of mandate.

No…