Case Name: State ex rel. Murray, Petitioner, vs. Reis, Circuit Judge, and another, Respondents
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1949-10-11
Citations: 255 Wis. 507
Docket Number: 
Parties: State ex rel. Murray, Petitioner, vs. Reis, Circuit Judge, and another, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 507–509

Head Matter:
State ex rel. Murray, Petitioner, vs. Reis, Circuit Judge, and another, Respondents.
September 16
October 11, 1949.
Kersten & McKinnon of Milwaukee, for the petitioner.
The Attorney General, Stewart G. Honeck, deputy attorney general, and Robert W. Arthur, district attorney of Dane county, for the respondent state.
Alvin C. Reis, in pro. per.

Opinion:
Fairchild, J.
The affidavit of prejudice was clearly defective, Therefore, at the time of entering the order to suppress the adverse examination, the court, as then constituted with the Hon. Alvin C. Reis presiding, had jurisdiction to rule upon the matter. There was no valid and effective objection to the venue then laid.
With reference to the point attempted to be made that the judge disqualified himself by accepting petitioner's objectionable affidavit, it appears that the jurisdiction to rule upon the motion was not affected by anything then occurring. He said, "the court will accept Senator Murray's statement that he cannot have a fair trial before me, but the court considers that the affidavit is not going to block me out from ruling on this preliminary question of law upon which my ruling cannot hurt the defendant whatsoever, even if it is against him, because it is a ruling on a question of law and I cannot, legally, be any more prejudiced on a question of law than can any judge in Wisconsin and, if I am wrong, the ruling is thoroughly reviewable before the supreme court of Wisconsin and its seven justices."
By the Court. — Application denied.