State ex rel. Lawrence v. Judge of the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction

This is an application for a mandamus upon the judge of *599the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction to require him to allow and sign a bill of exceptions. The case is submitted upon a demurrer to the return.

It appears that, upon the trial of the relator in said court for a misdemeanor in office, a verdict and judgment were given against him, from-which an appeal was granted. After the trial was over, the attorneys on either side entered into an agreement between themselves that the defendant’s attorney should have ten days in which to prepare his bill of exceptions, to be submitted to the…