State Ex rel. M. B. v. Brown

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction to “expunge, eradicate and physically destroy” all of that court’s records of M. B.’s arrest, trial and conviction for the illegal possession of marijuana. The controversy arises out of the interpretation of the word “expunge” as used in § 195.290, RSMo 1969. This section authorizes an offender who was twenty-one years *895of age or younger at the time of the offense to apply to the court which sentenced him to expunge from all official records any recordations of his arrest,…