State ex rel. Keyes v. Collins

DOWD, Judge.

The issue here is whether Judges of the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction or the Magistrates of the City of St. Louis have jurisdiction over misdemeanor eases pending on August 13, 1976. Relator contends that despite legislation changing jurisdiction over misdemeanor trials in the City of St. Louis a magistrate lacks jurisdiction to try a misdemeanor charge pending against him on August 13, 1976. A large number of pending misdemeanor cases have already been tried by the magistrates, and an even larger number of such cases remain to be tried.1 A preliminary writ of prohibition…