State ex rel. B_ C_ C v. Conley

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Respondent judge’s refusal to honor relator’s written application for change of judge in a juvenile proceeding prompted this court to issue its provisional rule in prohibition. This court’s present obligation to either quash or make absolute its provisional rule in prohibition is responsible for eliciting the following procedural events antedating relator’s application for change of judge.

On October 19,1970, relator was found to be within the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court of Boone County, Missouri, by reason that the “behavior, environment and associations of the…