State ex rel. Harris v. Laughlin

We are asked in this case to issue a writ ■ of prohibition forbidding the respondent, the judge of the St. Louis criminal court from doing or permitting any act to be done under an order made by said court on the 20tb day of February, 1882, directing a special venire returnable on the 14th day of March, 1882, to issue to the sheriff of tlie city of St. Louis, to summon 100 men from the county outside the city of St. Louis, for the trial of the cause of the State v. John D. Shea, upon an indictment for murder alleged to have been committed in the city of *149St. Lou-is, and pending in said'court.…