Molasky v. Brown

CLARK, Chief Judge.

This suit for declaratory judgment was commenced pro se by appellant, an inmate in the custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections. The named defendants are prosecuting attorneys in Cole County. The appeal is from an order by the trial court dismissing the petition.

At the outset, we note that disposition of this case has been rendered unusually difficult, first because appellant’s pro se pleadings in the trial court and his brief here are the unlettered efforts of a layman. Additional and equally confounding elements are the absence of any record explaining the basis…