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CURTIS v. TOZER

Nos. 31777-31779.

374 S.W.2d 557 (1964)

In the Matter of Robert B. CURTIS et al., Petitioners, v. Martin L. TOZER, Sheriff of the City of St. Louis, and William Boeger, Warden of the Municipal Jail, City of St. Louis, Respondents. In the Matter of Louis FORD, Ian Grand, Benjamin Goins, Roberta Tournour, Taylor Jones, Kenneth Lee and Ronald Glenn, Petitioners, v. Martin L. TOZER, Sheriff of the City of St. Louis, and William Boeger, Warden of the Municipal Jail, City of St. Louis, Respondents. In the Matter of Michela GRAND, Daniel Pollack, and James Peake, Jr., Petitioners, v. Martin L. TOZER, Sheriff of the City of St. Louis, and William Boeger, Warden of the Municipal Jail, City of St. Louis, Respondents.

St. Louis Court of Appeals. Missouri.

January 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Wilson, Jr., Robert L. Witherspoon, Clyde S. Cahill, Jr., Joseph S. McDuffie, Wyvetter Hoover Younge, Emanuel Williams, Robert E. Ratermann, Margaret Bush Wilson, St. Louis, for petitioners in Nos. 31777, 31778.

Wyvetter Hoover Younge, St. Louis, Billy Jones, East St. Louis, Ill., for petitioners Michela Grand, Daniel Pollack and James Peake, Jr.

Wayne L. Millsap, John P. Montrey, Wm. M. Howard, St. Louis, for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

Original proceedings in habeas corpus. Petitioners seek their release from detention by the respondent Sheriff and the respondent Warden who hold the petitioners in compliance with certain orders of the circuit court following an adjudication by that court that petitioners were guilty of criminal contempt. The sentences and fines imposed vary among the 19 petitioners and will be fully set out later herein.

The circuit court had issued an injunction...

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