People ex rel. Rice v. Appellate Court

This cause is in this court on original petition, filed pursuant to motion, praying that a writ of prohibition issue against the Appellate Court, Fifth District, and Honorable Edward C. Eberspacher, Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois for the Fifth District. The petition was filed on the relation of Robert PI. Rice, State’s Attorney for St. Clair County, and alleged that on September 21, 1970, Morris Campbell, Lawrence Tolar, George Duff and William Ebersoldt were convicted in the circuit court of St. Clair County, of official misconduct, each having been found guilty on five counts in…