Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — DISAGREE ON COX CASE [ARTICLE]

DISAGREE ON COX CASE

Circuit Court Judges Differ as to Scope of Law. Rule on Effort of Cincinnati Republican Boss to Exclude One Jurist Cincinnati, 0., March 31. —That the circuit court Judges had disagreed in the George B. Cox case was the an nouncement made upon the opening of the court. Presiding Judge Jones said that the case involved civil and criminal procedure for practically the entire state of Ohio. Judge Walters thereupon - began to read the majority opinion In this it was held that Judge Charles T. Hunt, presiding judge of the court of common pleas, drew a “distinction without a difference” when he decided that he lacked powers by which supervising judges of other counties rule upon the sufficiency of affidavits, swearing common pleas judges off the bench on grounds of prejudice. —. Judge Hunt’s finding was made upon the affidavits by which George B. Cox sought to remove Judge Frank Gorman from consideration of the perjury indictment against Cox. The report concluded by granting the Cox attorneys a mandamus against Judge Hurt to compel the latter to rule definitely whether Cox’s affidavit operated to remove Judge Gorman from the bench