Robb v. Estate of Brown

WASSERSTROM, Presiding Judge.

In 1964, Roland Hayes Brown was charged with murder in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. He pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, and after a psychiatric examination the State accepted the plea. A judgment of acquittal was then entered which included the following provision: “It is further ordered by the Court that the care and maintenance of said defendant be taxed as *731costs against the City of Saint Louis, State of Missouri.”

As required by § 552.040 (all statutory references herein, unless otherwise noted, being to RSMo 1969,…