State ex rel. Circuit Attorney v. Finn

•This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed by the acting circuit attorney of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, to try the right of John Finn, the sheriff of the city of St. Louis, to execute process of the St. Louis Criminal Court. A similar information was at the same time filed to try the right of Finn, as sheriff, to execute process of the Probate Court of the city of St. Louis, and of the Court of Criminal Correction. In each case the answer filed was the same, mutatis mutandis, and the subsequent proceedings were the same. The two causes, were argued and submitted…