State Ex Rel. Carver v. Whipple

RENDLEN, Judge.

Prohibition, to restrain respondent, the Honorable Dean Whipple, Judge of the Circuit Court of Laclede County, from arraigning relator on a charge of murder first degree. Our jurisdiction to determine original remedial writs is found in Art. V, § 4(1), Mo.Const.

On May 3, 1976, Steven Carver, relator herein, and Robert B. Newman were jointly charged with capital murder of a woman shot during a holdup of Nolting’s Department Store in Stover, Missouri. A first amended information was substituted, charging Carver with first degree murder under § 559.007, RSMo Supp.1975. Pursuant to…