STATE EX REL. McNARY v. STUSSIE

No. 58785.

518 S.W.2d 630 (1974)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Gene McNARY, Prosecuting Attorney of the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, Relator, v. The Honorable Harry J. STUSSIE, Judge of the Circuit Court, St. Louis County, State of Missouri, Respondent, and John C. Danforth, Attorney General, State of Missouri, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Motion for Clarification Overruled November 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Frances Carpini, Steven H. Goldman, Asst. Pros. Attys., Clayton, for relator.

George R. Gerhard, St. Louis, for respondent.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Robert M. Sommers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for intervenor.


FINCH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel respondent to proceed with the trial of a criminal case without requiring that eighteen to twenty year olds be summoned as jurors. At issue is whether Act 70, a statute adopted by the General Assembly in 1974, had the effect of amending § 494.0101 so as to reduce the minimum age for jurors from twenty-one to eighteen. We make peremptory the alternative writ of mandamus...

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