State Ex Rel. Dowd v. Nangle

CAVE, Special Judge.

[136] This is an original proceeding in prohibition. Relator, as circuit attorney of the City of St. Louis, seeks to prohibit respondent, a judge of the circuit court of said city, from proceeding further in a certain criminal cause pending in said court for reasons hereinafter detailed.

Briefly stated, the pertinent facts disclosed by the pleadings are: On May 23, 1954, the relator, as circuit attorney, filed in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction an information charging one Leland O. D. Cluck with the offense of “robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous…