State Ex Rel. Stanhope v. Pratt

533 S.W.2d 567 (1976)

STATE ex rel. Stanley W. STANHOPE, Relator,

v.

Honorable Stephen R. PRATT, Judge, Circuit Court of Clay County, Respondent, and

Honorable John C. Danforth, Attorney General of Missouri, Intervenor.

No. 59145.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

March 8, 1976.

W. Harrison Norton, Kansas City, for relator.

Vincent F. Igoe, Jr., Liberty, for respondent.

Karen M. Iverson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for intervenor.

HOLMAN, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition in which relator seeks to prevent respondent judge from ordering that he be committed to jail for contempt…