State ex rel. Brown v. Duggins

MORGAN, Judge.

Relator, prosecuting attorney of Cole County, urges this Court to make permanent its preliminary rule in prohibition preventing respondent, an associate circuit judge of said county, from sustaining a criminal defendant’s motion to quash a “complaint” filed against him for the second time.

William Francis Bentzen, defendant in the underlying cause, is charged with the *12Class A felony of robbery in the first degree, § 569.020 RSMo. Relator filed the first complaint to this effect against defendant on or about April 23, 1979, in the associate division of the circuit court of Cole…