State Ex Rel. Sawyer v. Kelly

Relator, Elmer Sawyer, seeks in this proceeding to prohibit respondent, Honorable Frank Kelly, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, from holding a certain hearing, wherein respondent threatens to make inquiry of certain affiants, as to the truth, or falsity, or knowledge of affiants' statements, made in affidavits in support of an application, for a change of venue in a criminal cause wherein relator is the defendant.

Relator was charged, by an information filed April 4, 1931, in the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, with the crime of forgery. At relator's…