Case ID: okla_121/html/0276-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JONES v. HEPBURN, Dist. Judge.
    No. 17798
    Opinion Filed Oct. 5, 1926.
    (Syllabus.)
    Syllabus Adopted.
    Reference is here made to the syllabus in-No. 17793, Barnett v. Hepburn, 121 Okia. 268, 249 Pac. 921, tliis day decided, and same is adopted as the syllabus in this case.
    Original action ~1ed in the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma by J. H. Jones for writ of cert~orari against James 1-lephurn,. J)istrict Judge Of Okmulgee County.
    Writ sustained.
    A. I-I. i\IcLain, Tom Payne, Pitchford &. Pitehford, and A. L. Beckett, for pet~tioner.
    A. N. Boatman, Co. Atty., and C. M.. Gordon, Asst. Co. Atty., for respondent.
   HUNT, J.

This case involves a review of the record and judgment of the district court of Okmulgee county upon petition for writ of certiorari against James Hepburn,. district judge, filed by J. H. Jones, county treasurer of Okmulgee county, against whom a grand jury accusation was returned in the district court of Okmulgee county on September 15, 1926. The proce--clure followed herein, and about wlYch the petition~~r complained, is the same as in case No. 17793, Barnett v. Hepburn, 121 Okla. 268, 249 Pac. 921, and 17797, Swan v. Hepburn, 121 Okla. 277, 249 Pac. 923. this day decided, and because of the same qnes-tions being involved, these eases were bricfed together and submitted and argued together, and it follows that the decisioh in this case must necessarily follow the decision in the two cases above cited, so, therefore, on authority of Barnett v. Hepburn and Swan v. Hepburn, supra. the writ of certiorari as here-in prayed for is snstaintd and the judgment of the district court of Olcniulgee county purporting to suspend the defendant herein from office is held to be without anti authority of law and is therefore quashed, v1a-catecl, set aside, and held for naught.

NICHOLSON. C.~T., BRANSON, V. C. J and ~IASON, PHELiPS. LESTER, CLARK and RILEY, JJ., concur.