State ex rel. Cunningham v. Leavitt

McDOWELL, Presiding- Judge.

Prohibition. In this original proceeding filed October 21, 1951, relator challenges the jurisdiction of respondent, acting Judge of the Magistrate Court of Webster County, Missouri, to try relator on a citation for criminal contempt for failure to obey an order entered by Honorable Cline C. Her-rin, Magistrate Judge of Webster County, Missouri, to produce the body of one, Clarence Calvin Cantrell, in the court of said Magistrate for the purpose of making bond.

The petition relied upon five separate allegations to show want of jurisdiction, to-wit:

“(a) That there was…