State Ex Rel. Lodwick v. Cottey

WASSERSTROM, Judge.

Relator Lodwick seeks to prohibit the respondent, Judge Cottey, from proceeding to the trial of a criminal charge presently pending against Lodwick. This case presents a procedural tangle of byzantine complexity.

On March 9, 1966 a grand jury in Clay County, Missouri returned an indictment alleging that on April 8, 1961, Lodwick “being the duly elected and acting Judge of the Magistrate Court of the Eastern District of Clay County, Missouri, by virtue of his office did receive into his hands a certain check in the amount of $520.00 dated April 8, 1961, and made by Stanton…