State ex rel. Powers v. Walker

RUARK, Presiding Judge.

Petitioner, Connie L. Powers, was defendant in complaint filed in magistrate court, charged with what the parties all agree was intended as a charge of molesting a minor under § 563.160.1 Specifically the charge was that he did “unlawfully, fe-loniously and wilfully, place his hands and detain a minor girl, and did suggest an immoral, lewd and lascivious act, with said minor by holding and fondling said minor.” Warrant was issued on the charge of “fe-loniously molesting a minor”; defendant was arrested, hearing was held; he was bound over to circuit court, and, in…