State ex rel. Geers v. Lasky

HOLMAN, Judge.

Original proceeding in prohibition. The relator is Donald Geers, Circuit Clerk of St. Louis County, Missouri, and the respondent is one of the circuit judges of that county. The relator seeks to prohibit respondent from proceeding further in cause M-96, the object of which is to punish relator for contempt by reason of his admitted violation of Rule 1-B of the Court en Banc of the 21st Judicial Circuit. On July 14, 1969, we issued our provisional rule. We have concluded that the provisional rule should be made absolute.

The Circuit Court of St. Louis County is composed of fifteen…