McDowell v. Levy

On the trial in the court below (one of the departments of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco), in an action of criminal libel against petitioner, he objected to the cause being tried by the judge then sitting, on the ground of bias and prejudice of such judge, and set out in affidavits the facts claimed to constitute such bias, and moved that the cause be postponed or transferred to another department of the same court on that ground.