State ex rel. Jones v. Laughlin

This is an application for a writ to restrain respondent, who is judge of the St. Louis Criminal Court, from proceeding propi-io motu to disbar the relator.

The return of respondent sets forth that, having reason to believe from facts that appeared in evidence before him *2that relator, who is an attorney of the St. Louis Criminal Court, had been guilty of duplicity towards the court, and of wilfully abusing its process, and that he had thereby caused great and needless expense in the trial of a certain cause in said court, the respondent, as judge of said court, of his own motion, caused…