State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Rutledge

Original proceeding in prohibition. Relators, lawyers of the city of St. Louis, seek to prohibit the circuit court of said city, Division No. 4, from proceeding further with a contempt case pending in said court.

In due course, a motion for a new trial was filed by relators in a certain cause then pending in said circuit court. Thereafter, said court, of its own motion, entered a citation of record, which was served on relators. The citation charged that said motion for a new trial contained excessive and contemptuous language concerning the conduct of the judge of said court during the trial…