State ex rel. Burke v. Scott

This original proceeding praying our writ of prohibition was instituted in this Court by relators on February 19, 1953, and challenges the jurisdiction of respondent Michael J. Scott, as Judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, to make a certain order entered by him on February 18, 1953. In that order Judge Scott overruled motions filed by relators to quash three certain subpoenas duces tecum and ordered the enforcement of those separate subpoenas issued at the direction of the respondent Edward L. Dowd, as Circuit Attorney of the City of St. Louis. The subpoenas were separately…