Westfall v. Enright

CRIST, Judge.

This original action in prohibition is against the trial judge in State v. Oggesen, a criminal action pending in St. Louis County on multiple counts of burglary and stealing, to prevent sanctions against the State for the State’s witnesses’ failure to answer in writing written interrogatories propounded by the criminal defendant Oggesen. We issued our preliminary order in prohibition in September, 1982. We now make that preliminary order absolute.

There is no general right of discovery in Missouri criminal cases. State v. Aubuchon, 381 S.W.2d 807, 813 (Mo.1964). Discovery that is…