City of St. Paul v. Tobler

Peterson, Justice.

Petitioners, by writ of prohibition, challenge the validity of the warrants of the St. Paul municipal court under which they were arrested to answer to certain misdemeanor complaints on July 14, 1967. The narrow issue is whether a warrant of arrest executed by one of the judges of that court upon a showing of probable cause was void only because it did not bear the teste of the chief judge.

There is no question that the statute specifically applicable to the St. Paul municipal court contains the provision that warrants shall be tested in the name of the chief judge. The…