State ex rel. Burke v. Campbell

RENDLEN, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. Relator, a candidate for the Democrat nomination for State Representative from the Fifty-Fourth Missouri District, first petitioned the Circuit Court of St. Louis County for prohibition, seeking to prevent the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners from placing, or to require them to remove the name of interve-nor1 John L. Lawler, Jr., from the Democrat ballot as a candidate for State Representative in the primary election scheduled for August 3,1976. Relator claimed Lawler had not been a qualified voter for two years…