State ex rel. Dally v. Copeland

CROW, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. Relator is the Prosecuting Attorney of Jasper County; Respondent is an associate circuit judge of the Circuit Court of Jasper County. Relator asks this court to bar Respondent from enforcing an order entered by Respondent in a criminal ease (“the underlying ease”).

Relator instituted the underlying case on September 17, 1997, by filing an information alleging that Donald Jerry Hutchison (“Defendant”) committed the class A misdemean- or of nonsupport in violation of § 568.040, RSMo 1994, in that fi’om January 1, 1997, through July…