State ex rel. Schafer v. Casteel

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. Relator seeks to prohibit the Honorable Herbert C. Casteel, Judge of the Twenty-Ninth Judicial Circuit, from enforcing his order finding relator in contempt for failure to follow an order of commitment of an insanity acquittee. After relator’s original writ of prohibition was denied by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, this Court issued its preliminary writ. We have jurisdiction. Mo. Const, art. V, sec. 4.1. The issue is whether the Circuit Court of Jasper County has jurisdiction…